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demifiendrsa · 2 years
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Wendell & Wild | Official Teaser
Wendell & Wild will stream on Netflix on October 28, 2022.
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From the delightfully wicked minds of Henry Selick (director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline) and Jordan Peele (Nope, Us, Get Out) comes the story of Kat (Lyric Ross), a troubled teen haunted by her past, who must confront her personal demons, Wendell & Wild (played by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) to start a new life in her old hometown.
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cinematicjourney · 6 months
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Wendell & Wild (2022) | dir. Henry Selick
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slimmwrites · 1 year
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I watched Wendell and Wild and couldn't resist making fanart. The storyline, the characters, and the nostalgia I felt with its connection to other stop-motion films like Coraline, ParaNorman and Corpse Bride❤️ also Raúl reminds me of Yadriel, and I choose to believe they're the same person in different universes🥴
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beingharsh · 1 year
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demigoddessqueens · 1 year
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Sometimes a family is a girl, two brother demons and their demon father, the friend she made, and a nun.
Seriously this movie was amazing and deserves every bit of attention!!
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geekverse08 · 1 year
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Brandon Kyle Goodman, Zach Barack & Sam Zelaya are Superqueeroes!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Maybe demons aren’t the most trustworthy creatures to make deals with?
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hyperrbolic-orange · 1 year
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I really liked Wendell and Wild and I thought the characters were so well designed. Except just one thing about Raul.
Now, I love Raul and I loved his design and his character but his HAIR.
The concept is really cute. Stop motion puppets are made with these little holes all over their head that animators fill with Tufts of hair for a natural look and movement. Raul, if you haven't seen the film, has a mostly shaved head except for his bangs. So the animator's have just not filled in most of those holes and left them visible.
Which is a cute idea, and fits well with the visibly-stop-motion look Henry Selick wanted for the film. The lines across the characters faces aren't covered (this half-face technique was invented for Coraline and allows for a more dynamic range of expressions in the characters faces) and the film is shot at lower frame rate to give it that classic Stop Motion jerkiness.
So leaving the holes in Raul's puppets head visible for a shaved head is an interesting and cohesive aesthetic choice.
...But I have trypophobia and boy did I hate it. Wish I didn't, love the concept. Love the character. Love the film.
But those holes.... *Shudders*
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rookie-critic · 1 year
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Wendell & Wild (2022, dir. Henry Selick) - review by Rookie-Critic
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Wendell & Wild was a wonderful stop-motion animated film with one of the best soundtracks of 2022 and a story that, while nothing spectacularly new, was wildly entertaining and full of Halloween heart. The newest from Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas visionary Henry Selick from a script co-written by Selick and Jordan Peele, Wendell & Wild follows Kat, an orphaned girl who, failed by the system, is dumped into a school for girls as a part of a juvenile detention rehabilitation program (the headmaster of which is very much just in it for the funding it gives to his school). Shortly after arriving, Kat starts to notice strange powers arising within her, and sees two demons (the titular Wendell & Wild, played by none other than Keegan-Michael Key & Peele) that tell her they can bring her parents back if she'll summon them to the land of the living. It of course is a bit more complicated than that, but there's your bird's eye view.
The cast of this film is a nice mix of a few veteran names alongside a slurry of fresh talent, and almost all of the newer names give fantastic performances. I'll note that a couple of the performances felt very wooden, and stood out all the more because of the phenomenal job being done by the rest of the cast. Another win for this film is its commitment to positive representation with a number of characters, the most prominent of which being the trans character Raúl. Outside of a handful of moments where the fact that Raúl is trans are brought up, the character is allowed to exist and not have his whole character defined by his gender, but rather by his loyalty and artistry. It just really seems like a lot of love and care went into making sure his character, as well as other characters representative of a marginalized group, were not portrayed as a token character of that group, but just as another character in the movie, who are fully realized personalities that are not just pigeonholed into "the trans character" or "the disabled character." That effort did not go unnoticed and I applaud Selick and Peele for making that happen. I'll also applaud this film for daring to be dark and go places that a traditional "family friendly" film wouldn't and discuss themes that most studios would say are "too mature" for a younger audience. Discussing death and loss in such a direct way, and especially framing that loss as a child losing both of their parents at an intensely young age, is a bold move on Selick's part. He, of course, is no stranger to darker themes, having made movies like Coraline, but somehow Wendell & Wild feels more grounded, more real in its depiction of death, even though it still has a foot firmly planted in the darkly fantastical, and I appreciate a movie that's willing to give a younger demographic a little more credit and give them the exposure to mature themes with the idea that they can understand and handle them.
Now it's time to give a shout out to the biggest pro this film has in its corner: the soundtrack. The needle drops in this film are insanely well done with near Guardians of the Galaxy levels of style and precision, with a track list mostly consisting of punk rock music from the late 70s/early 80s, but that ventures into alternative rock acts like TV on the Radio, and even throws in some ska for good measure. Every track hits as intended when it plays in the film, and I could not be more of a fan. If this collection of songs were available for purchase on vinyl or even CD, I'd be first in line to buy it. This one's been at the back of my head, buried in my much-neglected "streaming watch list," ever since it dropped on Netflix back in late October, and I'm glad I finally took the time to sit down and check it out.
Score: 9/10
Currently streaming on Netflix.
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thequeereview · 1 year
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Exclusive Interview: Wendell & Wild star Sam Zelaya "to not only have this kind of trans representation but to also be part of it is amazing"
Exclusive Interview: Wendell & Wild star Sam Zelaya “to not only have this kind of trans representation but to also be part of it is amazing”
If you’re looking for a treat to stream this Halloween, you’ve found it. Following its world premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, acclaimed stop motion animation filmmaker Henry Selick and certified horror hitmaker Jordan Peele’s delightfully macabre Wendell & Wild launches on Netflix on Friday, October 28th, just in time for the spookiest night of the year. The endlessly…
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cinematicjourney · 11 months
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randomrichards · 1 year
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WENDALL & WILD:
Demons want theme park
Summoned by traumatized teen
Caught in corporate plot
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i-killed-kissinger · 1 year
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So, I've just finished Wendell and Wild. The movie has the first trans character in a stop motion movie in history, which is obviously awesome and super exciting, and he's Latino, which makes it even better. Also, they actually got a Latino pre-t trans man to play him, which is a relief. ALSO, being trans isn't his whole character, which is nice.
However.
It is obvious that only cis people wrote this movie, because they INCLUDED the character's dead name!!! WHY? The character is out when the movie starts, and a character accidentally deadnames him. It's portrayed as the painful experience that it is, but you don't have to do that. Have the person accidentally call him she, or have someone deadname him on the phone so he can correct them.
If your trans character is out at the start of the story and their transness isn't the center of the story, please don't include their deadname, especially if they aren't the main character. If it's a long show or a novel, it might come up, but not in a movie or shorter written piece. It can be triggering for other trans people, and it also suggests that a deadname is still part of a trans person. It's not. I've seen this so many times, and it's infuriating. Your trans character doesn't have to have a deadname to justify their transness. Plus, it continues the narrative that trans people have to change their names, which isn't true. A trans man named Samantha or Daisy or fucking Lady doesn't have to change his name to be "fully trans."
I know the writers had the best of intentions (heck, one of the writers was Jordan Peele, we stan Peele here), but come on. If a trans person had so much as glanced at that script, they would have pointed it out right away.
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sonderpoison · 1 year
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RAÚL COCOLOTL voiced by Sam Zelaya Wendell & Wild (2022), dir. Henry Selick
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disneytva · 3 months
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TCA Sets Dates For Winter Tour 2024 - Disney Attending The Event With Disney Branded Television Panel TBD.
TCA has set its Winter 2024 return for February 5 at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena with the tour ending on the 15. The live event returns following the Summer Tour cancellation due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Disney is set to attend on February 9-10 with FX Networks and ABC, surprisingly Hulu and Disney Branded Television are nowhere to be found however according to TCA participating shows, units and panelists will be released at a later time. So expect on the upcoming month to get more updates on the panelist and units attending the press tour.
As you may know previous TCA Press Tours have unveiled many announcements, this year's edition unveiled the Phineas And Ferb revival, renewals for Pupstruction, SuperKitties and Firebuds, 2022 unveiled greenlight orders for SuperFudge and Tiny Trailblazers and 2021 edition unveiled greenlight orders for Pupstruction, Mickey's Tales of Two Witches, Mickey and Minnie's Wish Upon A Christmas.
Based on this here's our SPECULATION on what MIGHT be announced:
-Cookies & Milk key art and Guest Cast List
-Key Arts for "RoboGobo", "Hey A.J!" and "Kindergarten: The Musical"
-Key Art, Synopsis,Director and Writters for Disney TVAs films "SuperFudge" & "The School For Sensitive Souls"
-Greenlight orders for Jose Zelaya, Dave Pressler and Harland Williams - Disney Junior shows
-Greenlight orders for Latoya Raveneau, Nic Smal, Lucy Heavens, Noah Z Jones, Ryan W. Quincy, Thurop Van Orman, C.H. Greenblatt - Disney Channel shows
-Information on recently revealed series "Sam Witch", "Fantasy Sports", "Neon Galaxy", Johnny Guitar Rock Star" and "La Familia Avenúñez" who got revealed via trademark sites
-Big City Greens: The Movie synopsis, key art and date.
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