Henry Selick Talks 'Paranorman'!
Coraline's still a week away from hitting theaters, but director Henry Selick is already working on his next project, which he told us about at this weekend's Coraline press junket in Los Angeles.
"The first project I'm trying to help get off the ground," says Selick -- after we ask him what's next -- "with the company that I'm associated with, Laika, is not one I would direct, and I'm not going to put my name on it. I'd be a producer, but it's my head storyboard artist's project -- a young guy named Chris Butler -- called Paranorman. I think he's come up with a great original story, sort of a sweet comedy about a boy who communed with his dead grandmother, who ultimately had to face down an army of Puritan zombies to save his town. It's very, very funny. Beyond that, for me, I like writing, I liked adapting Neil's book. So the next thing I direct I will also do the screenplay. There's things out there, but Coraline has been so involved I haven't really figured it out yet."
