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Laika Taps Brian Duffield To Write & Direct Live-Action Film ‘Crumble’; Lord Miller Producing


Laika has tapped Brian Duffield To direct 'Crumble,' a live-action film for which he's penned the script, which will be produced by Lord Miller.

News of the project comes following word in June that Laika’s founder, President and CEO Travis Knight will next helm an animated adaptation of Susanna Clarke’s bestseller Piranesi for the studio. Most recently tapped to co-write, direct, and produce a feature adaptation of Daniel Kraus’s bestseller Whalefall for 20th Century Studios and Imagine Entertainment, as we were first to report, Duffield is coming off the sci-fi horror pic No One Will Save You for 20th, which came in as the most streamed title in the U.S. access all platforms when it premiered on Hulu last fall. Currently, the company is also developing the animated feature The Night Gardener, based on an original idea from Ozark ‘s Bill Dubuque, as well as a live-action adaptation of the action thriller novel Seventeen from screenwriter John Brownlow.

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