While the release next Wednesday of Vice Versa 2 marks Pixar’s big return to the big screen, another gem of animated cinema will be entitled to a “sequel” according to the director. We tell you everything.
The return of an animation legend
The Annecy Animated Film Festival, which was held between June 9 and 15, 2024, was the opportunity to discover many gems, but also to discover the first images of several highly anticipated projects : series Asterix & Obelix: The Battle of the Bosses by Alain Chabat for Netflix, season 2 ofArcana, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowlor the animated film The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrimpresented by Andy Serkis and Philippa Boyenswho served as screenwriter on Peter Jackson’s trilogy.
Other highlights of the festival: a panel on animation talents, on which the great Henry Selick was present. The stop-motion legend, to whom we owe, among other things, The strange Christmas of Mr. Jack And James and the Big Peachtook this opportunity to reveal that he was working on a new project: an adaptation of the novel The ocean at the end of the road by the legendary Neil Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods).
The novel, which tells the story of a man returning to his native village for a funeral, remembers the strange and disturbing events that happened the year he was seven and which he repressed. For Henry Selick, who brilliantly adapted the breathtaking Coraline – one of Neil Gaiman’s best novels and one of his best films -, The ocean at the end of the road would be a “spiritual continuation” from the adventures of young Coraline. Quoted by Varietythe filmmaker continued:
Instead of having a child who goes to another world where there is a monstrous mother, it is a show mother who arrives in our world and sows chaos in the child’s life.
We hope that if successful The ocean at the end of the roadHenry Selick will succeed in realizing his project of staging another work by Neil Gaiman: the gothic novel The Strange Life of Nobody Owensa rereading of the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kiplingin a London cemetery.
