Laika Studios has shared the first teaser trailer for Wildwood, director Travis Knight’s upcoming adaptation of writer Colin Meloy and illustrator Carson Ellis’ bestselling children’s novel.
The stop-motion animated fantasy follows the journey of Prue and her friend Curtis as the journey into a dangerous, magical forest to rescue her younger brother after he was kidnapped by a murder of crows.
Wildwood features the voice talents of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits, and Richard E. Grant.
From the makers of Coraline, Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly magical adventure about a young girl who ventures into a dangerous hidden forest to rescue her brother – an odyssey shaped by love, power, and the courage to confront the unknown.
Wildwood arrives in cinemas on October 23rd.