Guess what highly promising potentially Zombie Friendly all-ages film landed a composer and lots of voice talent? If you guessed ‘ParaNorman’, congratulations: you can read the post title!

Two-time Grammy Award-nominated composer Jon Brion has signed to create the original score for LAIKA and Focus Features’ animated comedy thriller ParaNorman, currently in production at LAIKA’s Oregon studios for nationwide release by Focus on Friday, August 17th, 2012. Following LAIKA and Focus’ groundbreaking Academy Award-nominated animated feature Coraline, ParaNorman is only the second stop-motion animated feature to be made in 3D. LAIKA President and CEO Travis Knight made the announcement today.

Joining the voice cast of ParaNorman are Tucker Albrizzi (Good Luck Charlie), Alex Borstein (Family Guy), and Jodelle Ferland (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse). ParaNorman is being directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler, from Mr. Butler’s original screenplay. Mr. Fell was director of The Tale of Despereaux and Flushed Away. Mr. Butler was storyboard supervisor on Coraline and storyboard artist on Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

Just look at that cast and crew list; this could be a really, really big deal for the Differently Animated.

And as we noted the last time we discussed this film, it sounds very Zombie Friendly, focusing on negotiation rather than confrontation:

The synopsis is as follows: “In this comedy/thriller, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits.”

Yes, let’s try DIALOGUE, people. Negotiate, discuss, find common ground and build upon it. This is the way to move forward, not cricket bats and haphazard massacres.

We cannot wait for ParaNorman here at the ZRC. It should be amazing.

Tags: Movies, Social Justice

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