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In this featurette from LAIKA and Focus Features, The Zombies of ParaNorman, Writer/Director Chris Butler, Director Sam Fell and Producer/Lead Animator Travis Knight discuss the creation of their "animated zombie movie for kids" and paying tribute to George Romero's living dead with their own take on the "shambling ghoul, the foot-dragging zombie"
ParaNorman rises from the dead and into theaters on August 17th.
LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, have just released a new trailer for their upcoming stop-motion zom-com ParaNorman.
Written by Chris Butler and directed by Butler and Sam Fell, ParaNorman tells the tale of a young misfit, cursed (or blessed) with the ability to speak with the dead, who is forced to use his supernatural gift to battle the zombies and other monsters unleashed on his town by an ancient curse.
ParaNorman features voice acting by Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe and others.
ParaNorman opens in theaters on August 17, 2012.