(courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel)
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Step inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save her baby brother, who’s been pilfered by a murder of crows. Wildwood is once again directed by filmmaker Travis Knight, who is also CEO of Laika, and director of the the movies Kubo and the Two Strings and Bumblebee previously. The screenplay is written by Chris Butler (ParaNorman, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link). Based on the graphic novel series written by Colin Meloy and illustrated by Carson Ellis. Produced by Arianne Sutner and Travis Knight. Made by Laika Entertainment’s animators over the past few years based in Portland, OR. (courtesy First Showing)
There’s something captivatingly magical about being taken being the scenes of the production of a stop-motion film.
Far from dispelling the magic, what videos like this do is heighten the sense of wonder at the imagination and creation behind films like Wildwood, the next movie from the production powerhouse that is LAIKA Studios.
You marvel at the ability of the people creating the film to come up with a distinct sense of time and place, to patiently bring it to life and to make it all feel so real and possible.
That’s a real gift and it really ramps something the sense that something very special is coming our way when Wildwood releases 23 October in U.S. (no Australian releases date assigned at this time).