Stop-Motion November: Rebecca Fisher Discusses “Coraline”

by Rebecca Fisher

Introduction:

Some collaborations are a match made in heaven. That Neil Gaiman’s novella Coraline was adapted into a stop-motion film by Henry Selick (who also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a dream come true, melding Gaiman’s creepy fairytale with the stunning visual brilliance of Selick’s imagination. The result is one of those rare movies that enhances and enriches the original source material, making the two versions of the same tale virtually inextricable whe...