Following the essential success of his stop-motion animated adaptation of Pinocchio, it appears to be like like director Guillermo del Toro has formally discovered his subsequent animated challenge with Netflix. Deadline brings phrase that the Oscar-winning filmmaker is presently growing the animated movie adaptation of The Buried Giant, primarily based on Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s fantasy novel of the identical title.
“The Buried Giant continues my animation partnership with Netflix and our pursuit of stop-motion as a medium to tell complex stories and build limitless worlds,” del Toro mentioned in a press release. “It is a great honor and greater responsibility for me to direct this screenplay which Dennis Kelly and I are adapting from Kazuo Ishiguro’s profound and imaginative novel.”
The Buried Giant will likely be directed by Guillermo del Toro from a screenplay he’s co-writing with Dennis Kelly (Matilda the Musical). The story takes place in a fictional post-Arthurian England, the place nobody is ready to retain long-term reminiscences. It facilities round an aged Briton couple, who’re making an attempt to seek for the son they vaguely bear in mind.
The movie will likely be produced by del Toro, with ShadowMachine serving as its stop-motion studio. This marks del Toro’s newest collaboration with Netflix after first working collectively on animated reveals together with Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia and Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans.
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