It’s been a great year for stop-motion animation, between the success of the new Wallace & Gromit movie and Corpse Bride. And when a bandwagon starts rolling, the smart people hop right on it.

According to Hollywood Reporter, another stop-motion movie, Coraline is in the works. It is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s children novel, and Henry Selick will write and direct it for Laika Studios. Selick directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, so it has real potential. You may think it was Tim Burton who directed that movie, but then you’d be incorrect.

Dakota Fanning will provide the main voice for Coraline. That girl has been in every movie lately requiring someone under the age of 10. The poor other child actors must be awfully tired of sitting on the unemployment bench.

Coraline is the story of a young girl who walks through a door in her new home, and winds up in an alternate version of her life. Everything seems to be even better than her current life, but things get creepy when the new family tries to keep her.

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