It’s been a long time since audiences saw a new motion picture helmed by Henry Selick, but the filmmaker is finally back with the new Netflix feature Wendell & Wild.
Granted, there was never a chance that Selick would be producing films as regularly as Tyler Perry or Steven Soderbergh.
The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline works almost exclusively in the domain of stop-motion animation, a medium that’s famous for taking so much time to be realized.
However, the painstakingly lengthy process ingrained into the medium of stop-motion animation isn’t the only thing responsible for Selick’s absence from the landscape of cinema.
He’s also been attached to projects that would never get realized, like The Shadow King.
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