Trailer Watch: Selick and Gaiman’s Stop-Motion Coraline
One of my fond memories is a trip to San Francisco when I worked at E.W. to visit the set of stop-motion director Henry Selick’s James and the Giant Peach.
His building housed room after black-draped room with exquisitely crafted and lit miniature sets surrounded by stop-motion cameras and animators who carefully moved the puppets one frame at a time. Such patience! Craftspeople huddled inside rooms full of tiny props and parts and costumes; it was like being part of a giant dollhouse.
Selick’s next, Coraline, is a collaboration with fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, who so far has not been adequately adapted on-screen, in my view. No one has yet captured his charming whimsical style.
Here’s hoping they get it right this time. Focus Features will release the pic in December.
http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/08/trailer-watch-s.html
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