Henry Selick Joins with Key & Peele for Stop-Motion Animated 'Wendell and Wild'

It's been all quiet on the Henry Selick front for a few years now as the Coraline director has struggled to get anything new off the ground. He had been attached to direct Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, but that got canned by Laika and Disney; then he found himself attached to The Shadow King, which is in complete limbo, and another go-nowhere project, A Tale Dark and Grimm. While that's discouraging, he's too talented a filmmaker to stay down forever, and he's lined up something new with Key & Peele that has a pretty good shot of actually happening.

Selick is teaming up with the comedy duo for Wendell and Wild, a stop-motion animated film based on his original idea. He'll direct the film solo while co-writing the screenplay with Jordan Peele, and the story sounds just as weird as Selick's other projects. Here's how Selick described the film to Variety...

"‘Wendell and Wild’ is a comedy about two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul."

While there's no buyer yet, that's likely to change very soon.