LAIKA ’s next movie Kubo and the Two Strings is centered around Nipponese folktales . Already the creators are forebode “ mystic origami ” and that is something I would very much like to see from a LAIKA product .
Today , LAIKA foretell the title and premise of their new film . In a press tone ending , it stated that LAIKA President & CEO Travis Knight will be making his directorial first appearance on Kubo and the Two Strings .
Here ’s the premise ( it ’s kind of farseeing and already sounds pretty grand in graduated table and scope of storytelling ):
The new movie , from an original screenplay by Marc Haimes and Chris Butler ( ParaNorman ) is a sweeping , swashbuckling adventure go down in a mythical ancient Japan . It is being brought to life at LAIKA ’s Oregon studio via the caller ’s innovative 3D stop - motion and CG crossbreed proficiency . In addition to directing , Mr. Knight is producing Kubo and the Two Strings with Arianne Sutner ( ParaNorman ) . The all - star voice casting include Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughey and Charlize Theron ; Academy Award nominees Rooney Mara , Ralph Fiennes , and Brenda Vaccaro ; and Art Parkinson , who play Rickon Stark on Game of Thrones and who is leave the voice for the title character of Kubo .
In the heroic fantasy , scruffy , kindhearted Kubo ekes out a humble living while devotedly manage for his mother in their sleepy shoreside village . It is a unruffled existence – until a purport from the past catches up with him to enforce an age - old blood feud . Suddenly on the discharge from gods and monsters , Kubo ’s probability for selection rest on finding the magical wooing of armor once wear by his fallen father , the greatest samurai the world has ever known . Summoning courage , Kubo embarks on a thrilling odyssey as he face his class ’s story , voyage the constituent , and bravely contend for the solid ground and the headliner .
The voice cast has already been set as well . Matthew McConaughey , Charlize Theron , Rooney Mara , Ralph Fiennes , Brenda Vaccaro have all been cast , but we ’re not sure what their roles are yet . Art Parkinson ( Game of Thrones ) is sound the lead graphic symbol Kubo . That ’s a pretty powerful casting and crew behind it at this stage . However , we do hope to see some Japanese creators involved down the telephone circuit .
Knight also released this command in the press freeing , call the movie :
“ A gripping recital woven from Japanese folktales and mythology , with lost civilisation , orphic origami , stately hero , adept - crossed lover , and profligate - curdling colossus . At once epic and intimate , Kubo is a funny , acute , and at long last uplifting pansy story drape in some of the most outre and exciting imagination I ’ve ever discover . Most importantly , it ’s deeply moving . It ’s a story that means something , a story that merit to be told . In unretentive , it ’s a LAIKA moving-picture show . And with a poetic hand , rarified shape , and our freakishly talented artists and craftspeople , Kubo will be a strange , stirring , and wholly arresting plastic film . I ca n’t wait to divvy up it with the world . ”
And if that means we ’re going to see LAIKA ’s take on origami , we could be getting some pretty spectacular visuals in the hereafter .
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