There are two Henry Selick (director for Coraline) interviews from Latino Review here and another for Sci Fi Wire here on the movie adaptation of Coraline. Check them out! At first I was really excited about Selick directing. He did an excellent job on The Nightmare Before Christmas, and I feel he would best be able to capture the mood and style of the book, however, after reading these interviews, I have begun to have my doubts. It seems as if he wants to give the film a much lighter feel that is "less creepy" than the book. Quote: "it's more of a Hansel and Gredel seduction into a place that appears to be colorful and wonderful, but turns out to be something more challenging for her, so to say." "Colorful and wonderful"!? "Challanging"!? Is he mad?! I think the book is a masterpiece for what it is; its unique creepiness and tone is what makes Coraline, Coraline. I guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope for the best!
bah. less darker, that'll kill the book. but if its anything like Sandman scripts, Neil will reject it if he doesn't like it.
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Just read the interviews. I'm more hopeful than you two seem, but it does sound like a major departure from the book. If what he's describing is hiding the web for longer than the book does. Hrm. Too much speculating for my taste. I'll wait and see. However... Here's what makes me hopeful: *He's going animated. Nightmare before christmas he did well. That short that used to play on liquid television (the name escapes me right now) worked well. Monkeybone was horrid EXCEPT that some of the otherworld animation and visuals worked well. *He's tapped They Might Be Giants. Oh my god that is SO *(&%@*&^#$&^@%% AWESOME!!! I was disappointed that Neil's Closing TIme story was a few issues too late to have a TMBG McSweeney's song written for it. It will at least have an interesting soundtrack. Admitedly, I was hoping for a Gothic Archies soundtrack, but this sounds good too *He's tapped French & Saunders. Dawn French, besides being a friend of Neil as it says in the interview, read the British book on tape of Coraline. We can infer that she knows and loves the book. Having her attach herself to the project is a good thing in my eyes.
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I'm going to try and take your positive attitude and hope he doesn't go too far off with it. I do agree. It does have a lot of things going for it. French & Saunders are great and I think the animation will be perfect for the film. It would be cool, though, if they did the animation for when Coraline crosses into the "other world"; a James and the Giant Peach type thing. And hey, if I end up not liking it, I could just do my own film version, created just to my liking. I've been wanting to anyway.
honestly, I'm not entirely positive. I just do my best to give a movie a chance despite changes from source material, ~especially~ before the movie has come out. Movies are never anything until they are shown to the public, meaning they either don't get made, or are changed in the edit after being filmed or so many other things... So, wanted to give an alternate view to an otherwise somewhat negative thread
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Keep in mind what They Might Be Giants have been like lately... Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack? decently decent but not great Mint Car? meanwhile, Harry Potter gets Jarvis Cocker & Franz Ferdinand....
oh, I have. They've yet to have an album I was disappointed with, and I appreciate no end how they don't stagnate, ever changing, at the risk of losing fans
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I was rather dissapointed by his choice of phrasing in the Latino one, but he did mention that it would be dark in the other. You can't ever really tell until it comes, though, so I am going to just decide when it comes. What was Selick's involvement in nightmare and geogre and the giant peach?
Originally posted by mouse: What Coraline most needs is an amazing Elfman soundtrack. Although I will say that for almost any movie, Coraline especially.
I agree. Coraline is a very Tim Burton-esque story. Danny Elfman always does Burton's soundtracks. It really needs Danny Elfman.
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