Netflix Shares First Look At Jordan Peele and Henry Selick's Wendell & Wild
The newest trailer forthe Netflix stop-motion spook fest Wendell and Wild has just been revealed ahead of its premiere at Toronto International Film Festival on September 11. The film is directed by legendary stop-motion director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas,Coraline) with a screenplay co-authored by Jordan Peele and Selick based on Selick and Clay McLeod Chapman's unpublished book of the same name.
Wendell and Wild stars Peele and long-time comedy partner Keegan Michael-Key, along with Lyric Ross, Angela Bassett, James Hong, and Ving Rhames. In the Netflix movie, Key and Peele play conniving demon brothers Wendell and Wild, who trick 13-year-old Kat Elliot into helping them enter the Land of The Living.
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The new Wendell and Wild trailer offers a closer look at the plot of the movie, with Kat being told to «face her demons» by a nun with glowing green eyes. Kat is then literally shown her tragic backstory replayed in ghoulish green, including the death of her parents. Kat then meets Wendell and Wild in her dream as the music builds and further scenes are revealed, including the Hellish theme park that Wendell and Wild work at. Towards the end, a gigantic pair of horns begin to rise through the earth as someone ominously says, «I'm coming for you.» The trailer ends with Kat stating in voiceover, «Everyone has demons. My demons have names.»
Speaking to Slash Film, Selick discussed making an animated film with a cast of People of Color. «Jordan, he convinced me Kat should be the protagonist because it originally was Sister Helley [played by Angela Bassett],» Selick said. «He convinced me [it should] be Kat and I said, 'Well, I'm a little worried
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