Coraline director set to make another film adaptation of a Neil Gaiman work described as "almost a sequel" to that cult classic
Jun. 13, 2024The Ocean at the End of the Lane is getting the stop-motion animation treatment
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Coraline director Henry Selick is looking to give Neil Gaiman’s novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane a stop-motion adaptation.
“Instead of a child going to this other world with a monstrous mother, it’s a monstrous mother who comes into our world to wreak havoc on a kid’s life,” Selick toldVariety, describing the novel as an “almost sequel” to Coraline. The filmmaker is reportedly now shopping the project around “with a honed 35-page treatment and scores of artwork and concept designs.”
The news comes ahead of Coraline’s special 15th-anniversary re-release, in which UK residents can see a remastered 3D or 2D version in theaters this August. Selick directed the pic, an adaptation of Gaiman’s novella of the same name, in 2009. The movie follows an 11-year-old named Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) who discovers an alternate universe behind a secret door in her new home. (It gave me nightmares about buttons and sewing needles for years.)
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