Jun 7, 2022

Henry Selick's Stop-Motion Film "Wendell & Wild" Releases New Video

Netflix has released new footage from Henry Selick's stop-motion feature Wendell & Wild. The video was released as part of Netflix's Geeked Week.

The footage shows more of the main character, Cat (Lyric Ross), who is entangled with two demon brothers, voiced by Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key. Peel also co-wrote the screenplay with Selick, based on an unpublished book by Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman.

Jordan Peele Henry Selick Watch this terrifying and endearing #GeekedWeek exclusive clip. Released this October. pic.twitter.com/wzUicOyM6L

- Netflix (@netflix) June 7, 2022

"Wendell and the Wild" is Selick's first feature film since 2009's "Coraline". It is scheduled for release in October, just in time for Halloween. Selick's directorial debut, Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas," was released around Halloween 1993 and has become a modern classic.

Selick and Ellen Goldsmith-Vane will produce for Gotham Group. Executive producers are Wynn Rosenfeld for Monkeypaw, Peter Principato-Young and Joel Zadak for Principato-Young, and Lindsay Williams and Eddie Gamarra for Gotham Group. Argentine artist Pablo Lobato designed the characters.