Laika, the animation studio behind CORALINE (2009) and this year’s PARANORMAN, have reportedly picked up Henry Selick’s cancelled Disney project…and brought it back to life!
Laika and Selick previously worked together on CORALINE (he acted as director, producer and screenplay writer), so this partnership already seems to work. But you may be wondering why Selick’s project was dropped from Disney in the first place. Well, reports have said that SHADEMAKER (the project’s previous name) was a little too dark for the House Of Mouse, so they let it go.
However, Laika have revived it and have said that they’re going to take Selick’s ‘special brand of surrealism into a new direction’. Exciting stuff! I’m a massive fan of Selick’s past work (including THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH and his work on Wes Anderson’s THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU) and of Laika’s most recent, so the sooner this new project is released, the better!
Source: IndieWire
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