Lord & Miller will produce LAIKA’s foray into live-action, with Brian Duffield tapped to direct.
LAIKA, the movie studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, is about to make a plunge into the world of live-action storytelling. Travis Knight’s studio is thought for making stop-motion animation, nevertheless it has now joined forces with Spider-Verse producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller to make its first live-action function movie. On Tuesday, LAIKA introduced that it had acquired the rights to Crumble, and unique script written by No One Will Save You and Spontaneous filmmaker Brian Duffield.
Lord and Miller might be producing Crumble alongside Aditya Sood by way of their Lord Miller firm, with Lucy Kitada and Nikki Baida serving as government producers. Along with his writing duties, Duffield will direct Crumble and function one of many producers.
In response to LAIKA’s press launch about Crumble, the brand new film is a few married couple who “go on a world-traversing journey within the hop of discovering a remedy to an historic curse.” No additional particulars in regards to the movie got.
Duffield has turn out to be a really in-demand filmmaker over the past couple of years, particularly after the discharge of 2023’s No One Will Save You, which obtained heaps of reward from each critics and followers. He has additionally been tapped to co-write, direct, and produce twentieth Century’s extremely anticipated adaptation of Whalefall, based mostly on the 2023 novel from frequent Guillermo del Toro collaborator Daniel Kraus.
“We’re so excited to associate with Brian and your entire staff at Lord Miller on this particular movie,” mentioned LAIKA Reside Motion Movie & Collection President Matt Levin. “Brian has such a singular voice and Crumble completely embodies the daring, emotional, and ingenious storytelling that we champion at LAIKA. Lord Miller is in a category of its personal and we couldn’t ask for a greater artistic staff to deliver this story to life.”
“I am going to always remember seeing Coraline on opening night time on the AMC Burbank 16 and questioning who these great new geniuses had been,” Duffield mentioned. “I am unable to wait to make a film with them and hopefully reside as much as their banner, and I could not be extra excited to get to go on a brand new journey with my associates at Lord Miller.”
“We’re so excited to maintain collaborating with our buddy Brian Duffield who has written a script that’s endlessly imaginative, humorous and romantic,” Lord and Miller added in a joint assertion. “Now we have lengthy been followers of LAIKA and Travis Knight’s groundbreaking work in animation and couldn’t be extra excited to hitch forces with them in reside motion.”
