While the release next Wednesday ofVice Versa 2marks Pixar's big return to the big screen, another gem of cinema my animation will be entitled to a “sequel” according to the director. We tell you everything.
The return of an animation legend
The Film Festival The Annecy event, 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: the seriesAsterix & ; Obélix: Le Combat des Chefs by Alain Chabat for Netflix, season 2 of Arcane, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, or the animated filmThe Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, presented by Andy Serkis and Philippa Boyens, who officiated as a screenwriter on Peter Jackson's trilogy.
Another highlight of the festival:a panel on animation talents, on which the great Henry Selick. The legend of stop-motion, which we owe among othersThe Nightmare Before Christmasand James and the Big Fishing, took advantage of took this opportunity to reveal that he was working on a new project: an adaptation of the novelThe Ocean at the End of the Road by the legendary Neil Gaiman strong> (Sandman, American Gods).
The novel, which tells the story of a man returning to his home village for a funeral, recalls the strange and disturbing events that happened the year he turned seven and that he has 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 Lane would be a “spiritual sequel” of the adventures of young Coraline. Quoted by Variety, the filmmaker continued:
Instead to have 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 life of the child.
We hope that in the event of the success ofThe Ocean at the End of the Road, Henry Selick will succeed in resolving the challenge. realize his project of staging another work by Neil Gaiman: the gothic novelThe Strange Life of Nobody Owens, a rereading of theBook of the Jungleby Rudyard Kipling, in a London cemetery.