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Laika Studios announces slate of adult animated films for 2022

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Laika Studios is ramping up its production of adult animated films, hopefully developing some serious threats to Disney’s dominance at the Best Feature Oscars in recent years. Two feature films look promising, both stop motion animated films with Travis Knight as studio president.

First, Knight teams up with Caleb Deschanel to take charge wild forest, set in Portland, Oregon, inspired by Colin Meloy’s fantasy novels of the same name. Netflix, Prime Video and AppleTV+ are potential contenders. The other, The night gardener a gritty neo-noir folk tale about a young Missouri man who struggles to keep his family together. Here is a first look at the two:

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“Beyond the city limits of Portland is Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows deep into the forest, and she – along with her unfortunate schoolmate Curtis – goes to retrieve him. Prue may think she’s too old for fairy tales, but she’s just found herself at the center of a fairy tale…full of strange talking animals, mischievous bandits and powerful characters with the darkest intentions. darker.

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A neo-noir folk tale about a young man from Missouri who struggles to keep his family together.