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Travis Knight To Direct Animated Adaptation Of Susanna Clarke’s Bestseller ‘Piranesi’ For Laika
A 'Piranesi' animated feature from director Travis Knight and his renowned Oregon studio Laika is in the works, the company announced Thursday.
The film will be the third Knight directs for the studio, on the heels of 2016’s Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings and the upcoming Wildwood, based on the fantasy novels by Colin Meloy, which features the voices of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Mahershala Ali and more. Formerly an editor at Simon and Schuster’s Cambridge office, Clarke is otherwise best known for her Hugo Award-winning debut novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, as well as assorted short stories and novellas, which she’s published in U.S. anthologies. Set to release Wildwood in 2025, the company is currently 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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