The Sound of Young America: Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick on Coraline

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Neil Gaiman is an award-winning writer in a number of forms. He broke ground in the world of comics with his 1980s series Sandman, which followed the god of sleep through a series of beautiful and sometimes terrifying adventures in the world of dreams. His books of prose include the acclaimed adult novel American Gods and the recent Newbury Medal-winning young adult book The Graveyard Book.

Gaiman’s 2002 novel Coraline is the basis of Henry Selick‘s film of the same name. Selick is the master of stop motion animation behind the films The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, as well as the animated sequences in Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. He filmed Coraline in 3D, and talks about creating the movie’s immersively beautiful visuals, and about adapting the book for the screen.

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