'Wildwood' Is a "Risky" Movie — Just Like 'Coraline' Was 20 Years Ago

What was the last thing you did that took 16 years to accomplish? No shame — but director Travis Knight has a different level of persistence than most of us. It took Knight and his stop-motion animation studio Laika nearly two decades to bring Wildwood , their latest film, to life. Even then, the studio behind Coraline wasn't entirely prepared for the challenges of its most ambitious movie yet. Knight (who yes, also directed an entire He-Man movie over the course of this journey) says the dark fantasy pushed his team to invent new technologies, rethink old techniques, and take…