Selick and Gaiman’s ‘Coraline’ Featurette

IGN Movies has this featurette for Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s 3-D stop-motion animated adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Hugo Award winning novella Coraline.

It’s a typical featurette where the artists pat each other on the back, but it gives a glimpse at how the movie is going to look.

Coraline tells the story of a young girl (Dakota Fanning) who discovers an alternate reality through a door in the new apartment her family movies into. It’s scheduled for limited release this December with a wider roll-out to follow in February 2009.

Coincidentally, I just started rereading Neil Gaiman’s terrific Sandman comic. If you’ve never read a comic before or think you don’t like comics, you should read Sandman. It starts out in kind of a horror comic mode, but quickly grows into something altogether more mythic, fantastical and literary.

They keep threatening to make a movie out of it and every now and then a director’s name pops out. In February 2007, fans were aghast to hear Joel Schumacher was interested, but luckily this turned out to be Internet B.S.

Gaiman has always said he’d rather see no Sandman movie made than a bad one, but he hinted at Comic-Con in 2007 that a ‘good’ Sandman was getting closer. Me? I’d rather see it as an ongoing HBO series.

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Tags: Coraline, Henry Selick, Neil Gaiman, Sandman
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