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An interview with Coraline director Henry Selick
Coraline, a fantasy book by Neil Gaiman, has recently been made into a stop-motion animation by director Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach). Cinema Blend were lucky enough to host an interview with Selick in which his answers are full and excellent. It makes for a very enjoyable read; below is an extract from the interview, there is a link further below to read the interview in full.
“Nobody liked the first draft, including Neil, even though it was incredibly faithful. [When I decided to add the character of Wybie] I realized that Coraline needed someone in her real world to talk to. Another kid seemed the most simple way to go. I set it in the U.S.. I kept a few characters British. Everyone was British in the novel. I wasn’t comfortable rewriting dialogue and trying to hold on to that. And there’s other details. The rhythms of a film are always different than a novel. You always have three acts. In the book she goes to this other world, and it’s very much a real place. I needed to have her go back and forth several times to build up. It’s multiple trips, and I decided to make it seem like a dream.”
Posted: February 16th, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Neil Gaiman
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