{"id":9313,"date":"2026-05-13T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=9313"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:34:33","slug":"wildwood-trailer-teases-heroes-villains-and-huge-battles-in-laikas-stop-motion-fantasy-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/wildwood-trailer-teases-heroes-villains-and-huge-battles-in-laikas-stop-motion-fantasy-epic\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildwood Trailer Teases Heroes, Villains And Huge Battles In Laika\u2019s Stop-Motion Fantasy Epic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As the saying goes, all good things to those who wait. And with 15 years having passed now since Laika Studios first optioned the rights to Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, the Oregon-based animation outfit \u2014 and its fans \u2014 have done their fair share of waiting. But now, after months of tantalising teasers, eye-opening featurettes, and that one very cool Empire digital motion cover, the first trailer for Travis Knight’s star-studded stop-motion fantasy epic is here \u2014 and it does look very good<\/em>. Check it out below;<\/p>\n

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‘My Tears Are Becoming A Sea’ needle drop? Check. Stunningly realised woodlands, intricately detailed characters, and Narnia-like flights of fantasy? Check. A murder of crows abducting a small child in a way that’s both terrifying and sort of oddly mesmerising? Check. Yeah, we’re thinking Laika are back! Sure, this near-wordless first trailer for Wildwood<\/em> only slightly peels back the curtain on what Kubo And The Two Strings<\/em> director Knight’s Chris Butler penned return to stop-motion has in store for us, but what we do glimpse \u2014 our first proper looks at heroes Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) and Curtis (Jacob Tremblay), antagonist Alexandra (Carey Mulligan), the anthropomorphic denizens of Wildwood, and what looks to be one hell of a massive battle \u2014 certainly has our curiosity piqued and our attention held. Knight certainly doesn’t seem to have been kidding when he told Empire<\/em> that Wildwood is the ‘hardest’ film Laika has ever made.<\/p>\n

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The official synopsis for the movie \u2014 whose constellation of stars includes *deep breath*<\/em> Carey Mulligan, Richard E. Grant, Angela Bassett, Mahershala Ali, Awkwafina, Amandla Stenberg, Tom Waits, Charlie Day, Maya Erskine, Jake Johnson, Rob Delaney, and Jemaine Clement \u2014 reads as follows. \u201cAfter her baby brother is abducted by a murder of crows, headstrong teenager Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) launches a desperate rescue mission into the Impassable Wilderness\u2014an enchanted forest hidden just beyond Portland, Oregon. Joined by her hapless but loyal classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay), Prue navigates a world of talking animals, bandits, and powerful figures driven by grief and ambition. As the pair is drawn into a conflict threatening the balance of the forest itself, Prue must discover the strength and belief she never knew she possessed. If she hopes to save her brother and protect Wildwood\u2019s fragile future, she will have to risk everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Will Prue McKeel save her baby brother? What’s the deal with the boy crying on the rooftop in the rain? And will we ever get ‘My Tears Are Becoming A Sea’ out of our heads? We’ll find out the answers to these questions and many more when we head into the woods with Wildwood<\/em> on 23 October.<\/p>\n

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As the saying goes, all good things to those who wait. And with 15 years having passed now since Laika Studios first optioned the rights to Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, the Oregon-based animation outfit \u2014 and its fans \u2014 have done their fair share of waiting. But now, after months of tantalising teasers, eye-opening featurettes, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-47"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9315,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions\/9315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}