Wildwood Teaser Trailer Introduces New Laika Cease-Movement Fantasy Epic

It might have been over a decade within the making, however in current weeks we have lastly began to get our first correct have a look at Wildwood, the most recent epic stop-motion animated journey from Oregon outfit Laika Studio. Final month, wesolely revealed a primary look photograph from Kubo & The Two Strings director Travis Knight’s long-gestating ardour challenge, and adopted that up shortly after with a world-first stop-motion digital journal cowl introducing the film’s plucky heroine Prue McKeel. Now, in the end, at present noticed the studio launch the primary teaser for Knight’s adaptation of Colin Meloy’s anthropomorphic YA fantasy ebook(s) — with a little bit assist from some acquainted faces. Test it out beneath:

Now that is what you name a teaser! “There are locations on the planet that individuals had been by no means meant to go,” ominously intones Jake Johnson over photographs of Coraline, ParaNorman, and Kubo‘s heroes heading into “darkish forests the place the timber disguise darker secrets and techniques.” There, we catch a glimpse of glinting coyote eyes, twisted timber, and the assorted inhabitants of the ominously named “impassable wilderness” — aka the titular Wildwood. It is a darkish, atmospheric, but in the end irresistible tease of a magical realm Knight described to Empire as “an American Narnia”, and while the previous Laika heroes who herald on this new teaser will not really seem within the film itself (no stop-motion multiversal shenanigans right here — sorry of us!), this fifty second appetiser does finish on a shot of the story’s new heroes, Prue and schoolmate Curtis, stood on the precipice of the good Wildwood.

Set in Portland, Oregon (the identical neck of the, er, woods that one Coraline Jones hails from, did not you realize?), the Wildwood story — per the ebook a minimum of — follows seventh-grade Portlander Prue as she journeys into the Wildwood in pursuit of a homicide of crows who snatch her child brother Mac. There, she and dorky classmate Curtis embark on a transformative journey crammed with hazard, magic, speaking animals, and surprisingly subtle political intrigue for a tween-targeted YA ebook sequence. Or, as Laika’s succinct logline places it: “Wildwood is a story of affection, loss, sacrifice and secrets and techniques, and of the magic you will discover in your doorstep, should you’re keen to search for it.”

Among the many starry array bringing Knight and screenwriter Chris Butler’s film to life are *deep breath* Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Tom Waits, and Richard E. Grant. We’ll be heading into the woods with all of them when Wildwood involves our screens someday in 2025.