Henry Selick to team with Key & Peele for new animated stop-motion film
It has been awhile since director Henry Selick made Coraline, one of the better animated films in years, and he has been looking to move on to a new project. While Disney and Laika have both passed on The Shadow King by Selick, it looks like a famous duo will help the director get his next project made.
According to Variety, Key & Peele are set to help create a new animated feature with Selick that will be called Wendell and Wild. The site adds that the project is in the early stages with the duo and Selick ironing out creative details while looking for a distributor at the moment.
Selick spoke about the project, telling Variety that:
“‘Wendell and Wild’ is a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly,...
It has been awhile since director Henry Selick made Coraline, one of the better animated films in years, and he has been looking to move on to a new project. While Disney and Laika have both passed on The Shadow King by Selick, it looks like a famous duo will help the director get his next project made.
According to Variety, Key & Peele are set to help create a new animated feature with Selick that will be called Wendell and Wild. The site adds that the project is in the early stages with the duo and Selick ironing out creative details while looking for a distributor at the moment.
Selick spoke about the project, telling Variety that:
“‘Wendell and Wild’ is a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly,...
- 11/6/2015
- by Zach Dennis
- SoundOnSight
Evan S. Connell Jr., a man renowned for his historical and literary writings, was found dead in his Santa Fe, N.M. home on Jan. 10. His neice, Donna Waller, says the cause of death was "just old age." Connell was 88.
Best known for his novels "Mrs. Bridge" (1959) and "Mr. Bridge" (1969) as well as his nonfiction like "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn" (1984), Connell's works were adapted for both the big and small screen. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman starred in the 1990 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge," while Connel's novel on George Armstrong Custer was adapted as a TV miniseries.
"Son of the Morning Star" was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Connell was a finalist for the International Man Book Award for lifetime achievement. All told, he wrote 19 books during his career.
"He always wrote about what he was interested in, not what would make money,...
Best known for his novels "Mrs. Bridge" (1959) and "Mr. Bridge" (1969) as well as his nonfiction like "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn" (1984), Connell's works were adapted for both the big and small screen. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman starred in the 1990 movie "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge," while Connel's novel on George Armstrong Custer was adapted as a TV miniseries.
"Son of the Morning Star" was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Connell was a finalist for the International Man Book Award for lifetime achievement. All told, he wrote 19 books during his career.
"He always wrote about what he was interested in, not what would make money,...
- 1/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Evan S. Connell, an American writer of remarkable breadth and eclectic tastes who wrote the novels "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge" as well as the history of Gen. George Armstrong Custer in "Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn," has died. He was 88. Connell was found dead in his home in Santa Fe, family members told the Associated Press. He had been in failing health for a number of years and died of natural causes. Connell was a favorite of literary critics, especially in the West, but except...
- 1/11/2013
- by Jon Thurber
- The Wrap
Genre writer Mark Wheaton (Friday the 13th remake, The Messengers) is about to see one of his best stories, Sunday Billy Sunday, adapted into a feature film, and we have the who, what, where, when, and how for ya! We're good like that!
From the Press Release:
Music video director Morna Ciraki will make her feature directing debut with the horror film Sunday Billy Sunday, having optioned the self-published indie bestseller from screenwriter Mark Wheaton, who has penned the adaptation. The film is intended for a 2012 festival release.
A novel of religious hysteria, Sunday Billy Sunday tells the story of a Dallas-area priest, Father Billy Acosta, who believes he’s been shown a miracle by God. Instead of being uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand to see a second one. Driven crazy by what he feels is God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp...
From the Press Release:
Music video director Morna Ciraki will make her feature directing debut with the horror film Sunday Billy Sunday, having optioned the self-published indie bestseller from screenwriter Mark Wheaton, who has penned the adaptation. The film is intended for a 2012 festival release.
A novel of religious hysteria, Sunday Billy Sunday tells the story of a Dallas-area priest, Father Billy Acosta, who believes he’s been shown a miracle by God. Instead of being uplifted, ensuing weeks of doubt make him demand to see a second one. Driven crazy by what he feels is God's silence, he heads to his church's East Texas summer camp...
- 6/2/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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