Kubo Studio Laika Will Bring Susanna Clarke's Piranesi to Stop-Motion Life

In 2020, English writer Susanna Clarke published her second-ever novel, Piranesi. Given that it’d been implicit 15 years since her Hugo Award-winning debut Jonathan Strange & Mr. Morrell, the book’s accomplishment had been a large woody astatine the time—and similar however Strange was aboriginal adapted to TV, Piranesi is coming to film.

As revealed earlier successful the week, Laika is tackling an animated mentation of the fashionable phantasy novel. Heading up the task is Bumblebee director Travis Knight, presently astatine enactment connected the studio’s 2025 movie Wildwood. At clip of With Piranesi being “very dear” to him, Knight called it a “joyful experience” to bring Clarke’s sophomore caller to the large screen. “She’s 1 of my all-time favourite authors,” helium added. “Susanna has created a beautiful, devastating and yet life-affirming enactment of creation [in Piranesi], and I’m humbled that she chose LAIKA arsenic her home.”

Set successful an alternate reality, Piranesi focuses connected a titular narrator trapped wrong a location containing a sprawling beingness that besides gradually erases people’s memories implicit time. Through Piranesi’s probe notes, helium goes astir exploring the seemingly endless halls wrong the house, crossing paths with a antheral named The Other who visits each 2 weeks assistance for immoderate probe of his own. The publication received beauteous large reviews upon release, becoming a New York Times bestseller and yet got a BBC vigor play.

If you’re a instrumentality of the Piranesi book, this is hopefully bully quality for you. The atrocious news? It mightiness beryllium a portion earlier we spot oregon perceive thing astir it: aft Wildwood comes retired adjacent year, Knight’s besides tapped to nonstop stop-motion neo-noir The Night Gardener, and he’s yet returning to live-action to helm Mattel’s long-gestating adaptation of Masters of the Universe. In different words, possibly program your re-read (or archetypal read) of the publication accordingly, astatine slightest until a teaser poster oregon trailer deed the internet.

[via Empire]

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