Travis Knight To Direct Animated Adaptation Of Susanna Clarke’s Bestseller ‘Piranesi’ For Laika
deadline.comLaika, the renowned Oregon animation studio founded by Travis Knight, has acquired the internationally bestselling fantasy novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, enlisting Knight to direct an animated feature adaptation.
The film will be the third Knight directs for the studio, on the heels of 2016’s Oscar-nominated Kubo and the Two Strings and the upcoming Wildwood, based on the fantasy novels by Colin Meloy, which features the voices of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Mahershala Ali and more.
Awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, Piranesi is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller with over four million copies sold.
Set in a dreamlike alternative reality, the book tells the story of Piranesi, whose 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.
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