Netflix Teases Henry Selick’s Stop-Motion Feature ‘Wendell & Wild’

That is the primary movie Selick has directed since 2009’s Coraline, which he made at Laika. He has been creating it since at the least 2015. Key and Peele have been onboard because the begin; Peele (Get Out) co-wrote the script with Selick and serves as a producer by means of his firm Monkeypaw Productions.

Selick and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein additionally produce for The Gotham Group. Sarah Serata co-produces. The manager producers are Win Rosenfeld for Monkeypaw, Peter Principato and Joel Zadak for Principato-Younger, and Lindsay Williams and Eddie Gamarra for The Gotham Group. Argentinian artist Pablo Lobato is designing the characters.

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter final 12 months, Goldsmith-Vein stated, “[T]he crew has suffered by means of fires, most just lately, Covid, and a number of political and social unrest. It’s been a really difficult film. Netflix has been an unbelievable companion.”

Different animated options on Netflix’s slate embrace Richard Linklater’s semi-autobiographical Apollo 10 1/2: A Area Age Journey, Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion musical Pinocchio, Aardman’s sequel to Rooster Run, Chris Williams’ The Sea Beast, Wendy Rogers’s The Magician’s Elephant, and Minkyu Lee’s The Witch Boy.