A rep for LAIKA said the studio does not comment on development.
“I would consider it,” Selick says of making another film with LAIKA.
OfThe Ocean at the End of the Lane, specifically, he reiterates his past remark.
Henry Selick reveals his scrapped stop-motion film for Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Ocean at the End of the Lane’ — which still might happen.Eric Charbonneau/Shutterstock; William Morrow
“It’s [Gaiman’s] best book,” he says.
They don’t wanna see G or PG."
“I think it’s a good thing for the most part,” he says.
Lyric Ross stars in ‘Wendell & Wild’ as an Afro-punk teen whose tricked into summoning two demon brothers to the land of the living.Netflix
“From us, that’s how it has to be done.
I’m in touch with Neil, and he’s become super successful with some of his series.
Then I saw him again.
I said, ‘Look, why don’t you give me another shot?’
We just have to see how Wendell & Wild goes.
This kind of development struggle is something Selick is familiar with.
It was to be the story of a 9-year-old orphan in New York marked by long, spindly fingers.
“I’ve got five minutes of finished footage.
It’s beautiful,” Selick says of that project.
It was plenty of money.”
But that’s just not the way he worked back then or how Pixar works.
This is too weird for us.'
It’s not weird at all.
Selick may just end up revisitingThe Shadow KingandThe Ocean at the End of the Lane.
He confirms he got the rights back, though he has to pay Disney “a little fee.”
Again, he says, “I think it all comes down to how my film does.”
In short, go watchWendell & Wild, people!
