Per the main logline,”Wildwood is a sweeping, darkly wonderful experience about a girl who endeavors into a harmful concealed forest to save her sibling– an odyssey formed by love, power, and the nerve to challenge the unidentified.” Knight has actually stated Wildwood is Laika’s many enthusiastic task to date, including battle royals and a number of aerial series. “We’ve needed to develop the innovative tools, the innovation and our storytelling muscles to do this book justice,” he informed Empire in 2024. The movie needed 136 sets and 231 useful puppets, enhanced with some VFX.

Peyton Elizabeth Lee voices Prue, while Jacob Tremblay voices Curtis, and Carey Mulligan voices Alexandra. The cast likewise consists of Angela Bassett as a huge golden eagle called the General, Jake Johnson and Maya Erskine as Prue’s moms and dads, and Arthur Knight as her child bro, Mac.

In addition, the movie will include Mahershala Ali as Brendan the Bandit King, Jemaine Clement as Roger Swindon, Awkwafina as a rat called Septima, Charlie Day as a coyote called Dmitri, Amandla Stenberg as Niamh, Tom Waits as Maxim, Tantoo Cardinal as Iphigenia, Richard E. Grant as the sensible old Owl Rex, Marc Evan Jackson as Lars Svik, and Len Cariou as Richard. Rob Delaney, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Blythe Danner will voice as-yet-undisclosed functions.

Wildwood opens in theaters on October 23, 2026.