Wildwood will be Laika’s new stop-motion animated film, based on the book The Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy, and directed by Travis Knight.
The Laika company announced Wildwood, its next stop-motion feature film after Mr. Link: The Lost Origin (2019), in 2021, at which time production of the film began and they were able to share a first image with concept art Of the same.
Now, two years later, we get the news, via Empire, that we’ll still have to wait quite a while until we can see the movie in theaters. Although at least they have shared a new image of the tape, in which we see its director, Travis Knight, together with one of the models the Wildwood.
Wildwood, Laika’s new stop-motion film, opens in 2025
Wildwood is based on the book The Wildwood Chronicleswritten by Colin Meloyand will have a battle sequence that has been a real challenge for At a timeWell, they had never done anything like this before.
“We are beginning to advance and take timid steps, saying: Oh God, oh God, oh God, how are we going to do this? But I think it will work. And you will tell me if it works when the movie It’s finished,” he explained. Travis Knight.
“It often seems that the movies of stop-motion they are rolled on a table, because they are. Move a physical object frame by frame and trying to bring it to life is quite a challenge. And then you add all the kineticism that you would have in a live action movie… It is very difficult“.
After signing the stop-motion feature films of The Worlds of: Coraline (2009), The amazing world of Norman (2012), Los Boxtrolls (2014), Kubo and the Two Magic Strings (2016) and Mr. Link: The Lost OriginLaika’s next film will hit theaters in 2025. Wildwood will tell us the story of a young woman who will leave for an enchanting forest in search of her lost brother.
