In 2020, English writer Susanna Clarke printed her second-ever novel, Piranesi. On condition that it’d been over 15 years since her Hugo Award-winning debut Jonathan Unusual & Mr. Morrell, the ebook’s arrival had been an enormous deal on the time—and like how Unusual was later adapted to TV, Piranesi is coming to movie.
As revealed earlier within the week, Laika is tackling an animated model of the favored fantasy novel. Heading up the mission is Bumblebee director Travis Knight, presently at work on the studio’s 2025 film Wildwood. At time of With Piranesi being “very expensive” to him, Knight known as it a “joyful expertise” to deliver Clarke’s sophomore novel to the large display. “She’s considered one of my all-time favourite authors,” he added. “Susanna has created a phenomenal, devastating and finally life-affirming murals [in Piranesi], and I’m humbled that she selected LAIKA as her dwelling.”
Set in an alternate actuality, Piranesi focuses on a titular narrator trapped inside a home containing a sprawling universe that additionally steadily erases folks’s reminiscences over time. Via Piranesi’s analysis notes, he goes about exploring the seemingly limitless halls inside the home, crossing paths with a person named The Different who visits each two weeks assist for some analysis of his personal. The ebook obtained fairly nice critiques upon launch, changing into a New York Instances bestseller and finally bought a BBC radio play.
When you’re a fan of the Piranesi ebook, that is hopefully excellent news for you. The unhealthy information? It is likely to be some time earlier than we see or hear something about it: after Wildwood comes out subsequent yr, Knight’s additionally tapped to direct stop-motion neo-noir The Night time Gardener, and he’s finally returning to live-action to helm Mattel’s long-gestating adaptation of Masters of the Universe. In different phrases, perhaps plan your re-read (or first learn) of the ebook accordingly, a minimum of till a teaser poster or trailer hit the web.
[through Empire]
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