Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has signed on to voice two roles in director Henry Selick’s upcoming stop-motion animated feature, Coraline, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The title role is being played by child star extraordinaire Dakota Fanning, who most recently starred with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg’s big-budget vfx extravaganza, War of the Worlds.
Coraline is the flagship feature film for Laika Ent., the animation factory formerly known as Vinton Studio. Based on the best-selling 2002 novel by Neil Gaiman, the fantasy flick will tell the story of a young girl who moves with her family into a new home and discovers a door that leads to an alternate reality. Hatcher will voice the mother of Fanning’s character, as well as her mother that exists in a parallel universe.
Selick, whose directorial credits include the Tim Burton-produced stop-motion features The Nightmare Before Christmas and James and the Giant Peach, is sharing helming duties on Coraline with Mike Cachuela, a storyboard and conceptual artist who worked with Selick on Nightmare and more receltly lent his talents to Pixar’s The Incredibles. Bill Mechanic of Pandemonium Films and Laika’s Mary Sandell are producing the film, which was recently picked up for distribution by Focus Features.
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