Wildwood (film), the Glossary
Wildwood is an upcoming American animated dark fantasy adventure film directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler, based on the novel of the same name by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy and illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.[1]
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37 relations: Adventure film, Amandla Stenberg, Angela Bassett, Arianne Sutner, Awkwafina, Bumblebee (film), Caleb Deschanel, Carey Mulligan, Carson Ellis, Charlie Day, Chris Butler (filmmaker), Cinematographer, Colin Meloy, Dario Marianelli, Dark fantasy, Deadline Hollywood, Empire (magazine), Ensemble cast, IndieWire, Jacob Tremblay, Jake Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika, LLC, Mahershala Ali, Maya Erskine, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Portland, Oregon, Richard E. Grant, Stop motion, Tantoo Cardinal, The Boxtrolls, The Decemberists, Tom Waits, Trailer (promotion), Travis Knight, Wildwood (novel).
- 2020s stop-motion animated films
- 2025 animated films
- American animated adventure films
- Animated films about cryptids
- Films directed by Travis Knight
- Films produced by Arianne Sutner
- Films produced by Travis Knight
- Films scored by Dario Marianelli
- Films with screenplays by Chris Butler
- Laika (company) animated films
Adventure film
An adventure film is a genre of film.
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Amandla Stenberg
Amandla Stenberg (born October 23, 1998) is an American actress.
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Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress.
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Arianne Sutner
Arianne Sutner is an American film producer and animator, best known for producing the stop-motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings.
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Awkwafina
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina, is an American actress, comedian and rapper.
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Bumblebee (film)
Bumblebee (stylized as BumbleBee and sometimes marketed as Transformers: Bumblebee) is a 2018 science fiction action film based on the Hasbro and Takara Tomy's Transformers toy line character of the same name. Wildwood (film) and Bumblebee (film) are films directed by Travis Knight and films scored by Dario Marianelli.
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Caleb Deschanel
Joseph Caleb Deschanel, (born September 21, 1944) is an American cinematographer and director of film and television.
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Carey Mulligan
Carey Hannah Mulligan (born 28 May 1985) is an English actress.
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Carson Ellis
Carson Friedman Ellis (born October 5, 1975) is a Canadian-born American children's book illustrator and artist.
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Charlie Day
Charles Peckham Day (born February 9, 1976) is an American actor, writer, producer, and podcaster.
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Chris Butler (filmmaker)
Chris Butler (born 12 February 1974) is an English animator, writer and director, known for his works at Laika, such as ParaNorman and Missing Link, which were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Cinematographer
The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece.
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Colin Meloy
Colin Patrick Henry Meloy (born October 5, 1974) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and author best known as the frontman of the Portland, Oregon, indie folk rock band the Decemberists.
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Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli (born 21 June 1963) is an Italian composer.
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Dark fantasy
Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporates disturbing and frightening themes.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Empire (magazine)
Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.
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Ensemble cast
In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.
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IndieWire
IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.
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Jacob Tremblay
Jacob Tremblay (born October 5, 2006) is a Canadian actor.
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Jake Johnson
Mark Jake Johnson Weinberger (born May 28, 1978), known professionally as Jake Johnson, is an American actor and filmmaker.
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Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker.
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Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American animated action fantasy film produced by Laika. Wildwood (film) and Kubo and the Two Strings are films directed by Travis Knight, films produced by Arianne Sutner, films produced by Travis Knight, films scored by Dario Marianelli, films with screenplays by Chris Butler and Laika (company) animated films.
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Laika, LLC
Laika, LLC (stylized as LAIKA) is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos, and short films.
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Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali (born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore on February 16, 1974) is an American actor.
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Maya Erskine
Maya Erskine is an American actress, singer, activist, and writer.
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Peyton Elizabeth Lee
Peyton Elizabeth Lee (born May 22, 2004) is an American actress.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.
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Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swaziland (now Eswatini) born English actor and presenter.
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Stop motion
Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
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Tantoo Cardinal
Rose Marie "Tantoo" Cardinal CM (born July 20, 1950) is a Canadian actress.
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The Boxtrolls
The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American animated fantasy comedy film directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi (in their feature directorial debuts) loosely based on the 2005 novel Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow. Wildwood (film) and the Boxtrolls are films produced by Travis Knight, films scored by Dario Marianelli and Laika (company) animated films.
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The Decemberists
The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000.
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American musician, composer, songwriter and actor.
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A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater or cinema.
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Travis Knight
Travis Andrew Knight (born September 13, 1973) is an American animator, producer, director, actor, and former rapper who has worked as the lead animator and current CEO for the stop-motion animation studio Laika, and directed the films Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) and Bumblebee (2018).
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Wildwood (novel)
Wildwood: The Wildwood Chronicles, Book 1 is a 2011 children's fantasy novel by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, illustrated by his wife Carson Ellis.
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See also
2020s stop-motion animated films
- Alien Xmas
- Bestia (2021 film)
- Big Man (2024 film)
- Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)
- Compound Eyes of Tropical
- Divinity (film)
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
- Junk Head
- Kkum
- Mad God
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021 film)
- Oink (2022 film)
- Savages (2024 film)
- Save Ralph
- Stopmotion (film)
- The House (2022 film)
- The Inventor (2023 film)
- The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks
- Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light
- Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
- Wendell & Wild
- Wildwood (film)
2025 animated films
- Dog Man (film)
- List of animated feature films of 2025
- Wildwood (film)
American animated adventure films
- Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
- Beowulf (2007 film)
- Hypergalactic
- Raya and the Last Dragon
- The Lion King (2019 film)
- The Simpsons Movie
- The Tale of Despereaux (film)
- Wildwood (film)
Animated films about cryptids
- Freddie as F.R.O.7
- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster
- Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
- The Ballad of Nessie
- Wildwood (film)
Films directed by Travis Knight
- Bumblebee (film)
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Transformers (film series)
- Wildwood (film)
Films produced by Arianne Sutner
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Missing Link (2019 film)
- ParaNorman
- Wildwood (film)
Films produced by Travis Knight
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Missing Link (2019 film)
- ParaNorman
- The Boxtrolls
- Wildwood (film)
Films scored by Dario Marianelli
- A Boy Called Christmas
- A Long Way Down (film)
- Agora (film)
- Ailsa (film)
- Ali and Nino (film)
- Anna Karenina (2012 film)
- Atonement (2007 film)
- Bumblebee (film)
- Burnt Out
- Darkest Hour (film)
- Eat Pray Love
- Everest (2015 film)
- Everybody's Fine (2009 film)
- Far North (2007 film)
- Federer: Twelve Final Days
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
- Goodbye Bafana
- Hippie Hippie Shake
- Hummingbird (film)
- I Capture the Castle (film)
- I Went Down
- In This World
- Jane Eyre (2011 film)
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Opal Dream
- Paddington 2
- Pandaemonium (film)
- Passer By (film)
- Pinocchio (2019 film)
- Pride & Prejudice (2005 film)
- Quartet (2012 film)
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
- September (2003 film)
- Shooting Dogs
- Shrooms (film)
- The Boxtrolls
- The Brave One (2007 film)
- The Brothers Grimm (film)
- The Return (2006 film)
- The Secret Garden (2020 film)
- The Sheep Thief
- The Soloist
- The Warrior (2001 British film)
- Third Person (film)
- This Little Life
- V for Vendetta (film)
- We Are Together
- Wild Card (2015 film)
- Wildwood (film)
Films with screenplays by Chris Butler
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Missing Link (2019 film)
- ParaNorman
- Wildwood (film)
Laika (company) animated films
- Coraline (film)
- Corpse Bride
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Missing Link (2019 film)
- Moongirl
- ParaNorman
- The Boxtrolls
- Wildwood (film)