Oscar-winning animation studio LAIKA moving into live-action movies with Seventeen

The Academy Award-winning animation studio LAIKA, the stop-motion geniuses behind Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Lacking Hyperlink, and animated all-timer Kubo and the Two Strings, have introduced their intention to maneuver into live-action filmmaking with an adaptation of upcoming novel Seventeen.

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The novel, the primary from screenwriter John Brownlow (Sylvia, Fleming), shall be printed someday in 2022, and was on the coronary heart of a fierce bidding warfare which was received by LAIKA.

The studios President and CEO, Travis Knight (Bumblebee, Kubo and the Two Strings) mentioned “For the previous 15 years, LAIKA has been dedicated to creating films that matter. Throughout mediums and genres, our studio has fused artwork, craft, and expertise in service of daring, distinctive, and enduring tales. With Seventeen, LAIKA is taking that philosophy in an thrilling new course.”

In accordance the Knight, Seventeen is “a thriller with soul, a sinuous adrenaline-fueled actioner with a honest coronary heart beating beneath its rippling pectorals.”

Brownlow, who additionally wrote 2017’s Anya Taylor-Pleasure mini-series The Miniaturist mentioned “I’m completely thrilled to be growing Seventeen for the display screen with Laika. As a longtime fan of Laika’s films for his or her imaginative and prescient, coronary heart, craft, intelligence and ambition, I couldn’t have hoped for the novel or the universe it inhabits to have discovered a greater or extra thrilling house. I’m past honored to be a part of their plans for the longer term.”

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