‘Wildwood’s’ Murder of the Crows Sequence Took Laika’s Artisans Over Five Years to Complete (EXCLUSIVE)
Written and direct by Travis Knight (“Kubo and the Two Strings”), the picture, opening Oct. 23, follows Prue, a 12-year-old girl who launches a desperate…
Variety reports: Written and direct by Travis Knight (“Kubo and the Two Strings”), the picture, opening Oct. 23, follows Prue, a 12-year-old girl who launches a desperate rescue mission to save her baby.
Laika’s latest stop-motion animated feature, “Wildwood,” is the Oregon-based studio’s most ambitious film to date, featuring 231 puppets, 54 hero characters and 136 locations.
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