Travis Knight To Direct Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi For Laika

LAIKA animation is going back into the world of wonder as the Portland-based stop-motion animation studio is slated to adapt Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. Studio founder Travis Knight will be directing the feature-length film in what looks to be a straight shot at the Oscar voters who just put in The Boy And The Heron has the Best Animated Film and has a history of pushing votes towards other stop-motion fare like Anomalisa, Coraline, and others.

Synopsis:

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house ― a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.