Laika Studios Brings 'Wildwood' Fantasy Novel to Life
The stop-motion adventure follows a girl’s rescue mission after her baby brother is abducted, with a voice cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali.
- On Wednesday, animation studio LAIKA released the first teaser trailer for Wildwood, a stop-motion feature directed by Travis Knight set to debut in theaters on October 23.
- Headstrong teenager Prue McKeel, voiced by Peyton Elizabeth Lee, launches a desperate rescue mission into the enchanted Impassable Wilderness after a murder of crows abducts her baby brother, Mac.
- The ensemble cast includes Jacob Tremblay as classmate Curtis Mehlberg, Mahershala Ali, and Angela Bassett, with a screenplay adapted by Chris Butler from Colin Meloy's book series.
- Fans received a preview at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, where the studio unveiled the footage, while Fathom Entertainment will handle the wide U.S. theatrical release.
- Set to the mournful sound of "My Tears are Becoming a Sea" by M83, the teaser hints at a dark magical journey, continuing LAIKA's Oscar-nominated legacy dating back to 2009's Coraline.
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Laika releases trailer for animated 'Wildwood' film set in Portland
Laika's upcoming film "Wildwood", directed by Travis Knight and based on a book by Colin Meloy, follows a teenage girl's journey into an enchanted forest to rescue her baby brother, with the help of an unlikely companion, and is set to be released in theaters on October 23, 2026.
7 Years Later, An Innovative Movie Studio Returns With An Exciting New Fantasy Epic
LaikaAnimation is an interesting medium because, as realistic as one technique can get, there are still others that can portray something different, but equally compelling. Avatar may show the hyper-realistic possibilities of motion-capture, but that doesn’t negate the nostalgic feeling of a hand-drawn 2D cartoon. Of all the animation techniques, one stands alone as the most time-consuming and labor-intensive: stop-motion animation. Even as digi…
Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks and Studio Ghibli are the cultural dominators of animation cinema. However, the most coffee lovers of the format know of the existence of another great company key in the artistic development of stop-motion (frame-to-frame recording technique). We speak, of course, of the label Laika, responsible for great masterpieces such as The Worlds of Coraline (2009) or Kubo and the two magic strings (2016). That is why viewers ar…
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