Jordan Peele is now an Oscar winner, but appears to be content with not forgetting his roots. He’ll once again be teaming with his former Comedy Central cohort Keegan-Michael Key on the stop-motion animated film Wendell and Wild, an original feature from Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline helmer Henry Selick. Initially announced a few years ago, it’s now moving forward thanks to Netflix, who will finance and distribute the film, according to Deadline.
Selick described the story as following “two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul.” With Key & Peele providing the voices of the brothers, the script is coming from Selick, Peele, and Clay McLeod Chapman, and a book release is also being planned timed to the Netflix release.
In other animation news, Sylvain Chomet is currently working on his Fellini-inspired animation The Thousand Miles,...
Selick described the story as following “two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul.” With Key & Peele providing the voices of the brothers, the script is coming from Selick, Peele, and Clay McLeod Chapman, and a book release is also being planned timed to the Netflix release.
In other animation news, Sylvain Chomet is currently working on his Fellini-inspired animation The Thousand Miles,...
- 3/19/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
The Thousand Miles
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Writer: Sylvain Chomet, Demian Gregory
It’s been four years since we last saw anything from Sylvain Chomet, when he delivered his first live action film Attila Marcel in 2013.
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Director: Sylvain Chomet
Writer: Sylvain Chomet, Demian Gregory
It’s been four years since we last saw anything from Sylvain Chomet, when he delivered his first live action film Attila Marcel in 2013.
Continue reading...
- 1/3/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
More than a year-and-a-half since news of its development first broke, Sylvain Chomet‘s new film The Thousand Miles is about to move forward. Reportedly a combination of live-action and animated material, it’s inspired by writings and drawings that Federico Fellini created from his dreams, and follows an early-80s-set plot concerning “a pair of ageing brothers who, separated by the twist and turns of life, reunite through their shared life-dream to compete in Italy’s Mille Miglia – a Brescia-to-Rome-and-back vintage car rally, said to be the world’s most beautiful road race.”
The animation process will call for combinations of 2D and CG material, and perhaps that vision can be partly understood through the concept art provided above — though an artist of Chomet’s exacting nature is certainly best understood via movement. Nevertheless, impending movement on this project — with storyboard and designs happening this month, and a cast...
The animation process will call for combinations of 2D and CG material, and perhaps that vision can be partly understood through the concept art provided above — though an artist of Chomet’s exacting nature is certainly best understood via movement. Nevertheless, impending movement on this project — with storyboard and designs happening this month, and a cast...
- 1/5/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Triplets of Belleville and "The Illusionist" director Sylvain Chomet has announced that he's begun production on "The Thousand Miles" at Savoy & Gregory. The project marks the multi-talented French filmmaker's long-awaited return to the animated genre which he previously tackled in 2003 and 2010.
Effectively the helmer's English-language debut, dialogue plays a large part in 'Miles' unlike his previous two animated films. Newcomer James Lipsius along with two iconic American actors with Italian roots will voice the lead characters in a film said to be primarily inspired by the dream journals of iconic Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini.
Set in an early 1980s Italy, the story follows two ageing brothers who, separated by life, reunite through their shared life-dream to compete in Italy's Mille Miglia vintage car rally - the world's most beautiful road race. What follows is a metaphysical journey filled with love, laughter and sorrow.
Though entirely in 2D hand-drawn animation, the...
Effectively the helmer's English-language debut, dialogue plays a large part in 'Miles' unlike his previous two animated films. Newcomer James Lipsius along with two iconic American actors with Italian roots will voice the lead characters in a film said to be primarily inspired by the dream journals of iconic Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini.
Set in an early 1980s Italy, the story follows two ageing brothers who, separated by life, reunite through their shared life-dream to compete in Italy's Mille Miglia vintage car rally - the world's most beautiful road race. What follows is a metaphysical journey filled with love, laughter and sorrow.
Though entirely in 2D hand-drawn animation, the...
- 1/5/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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