Draft:The Night Gardener (film)
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| The Night Gardener | |
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| Directed by | Travis Knight |
| Written by | Bill Dubuque |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Night Gardener is an upcoming American stop-motion animated neo-noir film directed by Travis Knight and written by Ozark creator Bill Dubuque. It is produced by Laika. In the film, a young man in rural Missouri is trying to keep his family together in the wake of a tragedy.
Based on an original screenplay by Dubuque, development of the stop-motion neo-noir film from Laika started in April 2022, with Knight to direct. He says Dubuque is a masterful storyteller that crafted a provocative ideas.
Premise[edit]
The film follows a young man in rural Missouri who's trying to keep his family together in the wake of a tragedy.[1]
Development[edit]
In April 2022, it was announced that Travis Knight would direct a new Laika stop-motion film titled The Night Gardener. It is based on an original screenplay by Ozark creator Bill Dubuque. In the announcement, Knight said: "The Night Gardener is a beautiful and timeless story that quickens the pulse as often as it breaks the heart. Bill is a masterful storyteller. He's crafted a lyrical world layered with complex characters, provocative ideas, and keenly felt emotion. It's gonna be one helluva movie." Dubuque also added: "I'm delighted that Travis Knight saw in The Night Gardener a story worthy of the time-intensive process and collective talent of Laika’s in-house artisans. Laika's creativity and dedication to detail is, in my opinion, as close as one can come to conjuring storytelling magic."[2] Laika described it as " a gritty neo noir folktale and declared that they wanted to " paint an unflinching portrait of sacrifice, self-reliance, and revenge."<ref>[1]<ref> On July 2023 Knight declared that it was set to be a more mature film than Laika's previous films, stating that " There’s never been a film made like this in our medium. And that really excites me. It’s a beautiful story, it scares me, and it’s going to be an extraordinary piece of cinema". He added that “This film is not a family film, at all.<ref>[2] </ref