For their fourth stop-motion animated picture, Laika lined up quite a cast, as Matthew McConaughey, Rooney Mara, Charlize Theron, and Ralph Fiennes all have signed on to voice characters in their latest, Kubo and the Two Strings.
In a press release, found on Thompson on Hollywood, the studio revealed their follow-up to this year's The Boxtrolls. Kubo serves as the directorial debut of Travis Knight, Laika's president and CEO. With a script by Marc and Chris Butler (ParaNorman), it tells an epic fantasy tale of the titular character and the disruption of his quiet existence when a spirit from the past enforces an age-old vendetta on him.
Art Parkinson (Game of Thrones) will voice Kubo, but who McConaughey, Theron, Mara, Fiennes and Brenda Vaccaro play is still unannounced. Kubo and the Two Strings is the first film in Laika's three-picture deal with Focus Features, who also released Laika's other three movies, including Coraline and the aforementioned The Boxtrolls and ParaNorman. As the press release notes, this animated film continues Laika's tradition of incorporating an "innovative 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid technique." It's scheduled to hit theaters on August 19, 2016.
McConaughey, coming off his turns in True Detective and Interstellar this year, will next appear in The Sea of Trees next year. Theron, seen this summer in A Million Ways to Die in the West, stars in Mad Max: Fury Road and Dark Places next year. Mara appears in Trash, Pan, Carol and an untitled Terrence Malick film in 2015. And after his acclaimed turn in The Grand Budapest Hotel this year, Fiennes is currently filming his part in the new Bond film Spectre and a role in the Coen brothers' Hail, Caesar!, set to be released in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
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