Earlier this week the first poster for Focus Feature’s latest stop motion animated film ParaNorman debuted and today the trailer has arrived.
The film comes from Laika, the studio behind Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and Henry Selick’s Coraline. The story centers on Norman (voiced by Let Me In co-star Kodi Smit-McPhee), a boy who is able to speak with the dead, and will have to take on zombies, ghosts, witches and, worst of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse.
Joining McPhee in the voice cast are Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, John Goodman, Bernard Hill and Alex Borstein. I’m not sure which characters each voices, but perhaps the trailer can answer that question for you.
The film is directed by Sam Fell (director of Tales of Desperaux and Flushed Away) and Chris Butler, who worked as a storyboard artist on Corpse Bride and storyboard supervisor on Coraline. For a larger look at the poster you can click here and the trailer is directly below.
