Coraline director Henry Selick has signed a deal to make stop-motion animated features for Disney-Pixar.
The deal brings Selick back to the studio where he began his animation career in the late 1970s, and reunites him with long-time friends and colleagues such as John Lasseter and Brad Bird.
According to Variety, Selick will set up shop in the Bay Area and develop ideas for and direct stop-motion features based on original ideas and literary properties.
Selick’s most-recent feature, Coraline, was based on a novella by Neil Gaiman and was made at Laika in Portland, Ore. The stereoscopic film was a box office success and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
His previous feature directing credits include James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas and the live-action/animation hybrid Monkeybone.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, founder and CEO of The Gotham Group, represented Selick in the deal.
