Work · Film · 2009

Coraline

Henry Selick, writer and director

Studio: Laika / Focus Features
Units: 1 film, one theatrical cut, about 100 minutes
imdb: tt0327597

Laika's stop-motion feature debut, written and directed by Henry Selick, relocates the story to the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon and adds Wybie Lovat, an original screen character, to give Coraline someone in the real world to talk to.

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Novel 2002 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationCoralineThe film keeps 21 of the novella's 23 mapped beats, including the button-eyed Other Mother, her offer to sew buttons over Coraline's eyes, and the three ghost children whose souls she holds. It moves the setting to an apartment house in Oregon and adds Wybie Lovat, a real-world friend the novel does not have.84composite · editorial

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