{"id":336028,"date":"2025-10-27T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336028\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T12:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T12:40:18","slug":"laikas-latest-wildwood-footage-is-a-technical-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336028\/","title":{"rendered":"Laika’s Latest ‘Wildwood’ Footage Is a Technical Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since last year<\/a>, Laika\u2019s been keeping its latest movie\u00a0Wildwood<\/a>\u00a0under wraps and only letting out tiny scraps<\/a> of information. With\u00a0ParaNorman<\/a>\u00a0briefly back in theaters this weekend, the stop-motion studio snuck in some more footage from the film, which it promises will be \u201ctheir most ambitious cinematic journey yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

After an intro building up Laika\u2019s history up to this point, the video shows off concept art from the film depicting its majestic aerial views of Portland and renders of the General, an eagle with \u201cunshakeable grace\u201d voiced by Angela Bassett. As the narrator explains, creating the General required models \u201cinspired by nature\u201d to create her movements, followed by 9,000 individual feathers going onto a pair of special puppets\u2014one puppet for flight scenes, and the other for \u201cintricate performance controls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Directed by Travis Knight (Bumblebee) and based on Colin Meloy\u2019s 2011 kids fantasy novel, the film focuses on Portland kid Prue McKeel as she and her classmate Curtis explore a magical forest looking for her missing baby brother Mac, and enlist the General\u2019s help to find him. The voice cast also includes Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, and Amandla Stenberg.<\/p>\n

Animation is what Laika movies are known for, and in that sense, Wildwood\u00a0looks like another winning. Watching the animators and artists bring the General to life from render to puppeting her around sure is something, and you really believe it when the narration talks about \u201cpouring creativity in every joint, feather, and frame.\u201d The studio is clearly proud of what it\u2019s made in the General\u2014particularly when she takes to the skies\u2014and its own technical skill, since the video talks up the \u201cartistry, innovation, and heart\u201d that went into production. We\u2019ll see what it all adds up to when the film releases in 2026.<\/p>\n

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