Who: The expected talent is Kodi
Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, directors Chris Butler
& Sam Fell and LAIKA CEO Travis Knight. It will be moderated by
Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger.
What:
PARANORMAN Comic-Con Panel with cast
& crew interviews and a sneak peak at footage!
Where:
San Diego Comic Con in Hall H
When:
Friday, July 13th
The film is produced by Laika
Entertainment, the same company behind CORALINE, and uses the same stop-motion
animation. Department Heads Georgina Hayns (head of model making), Deborah Cook
(head of costume), Brian McLean (head of RP) and Production Designer Nelson
Lowry will be on hand for interviews.
For those not attending the
show, a PARANORMAN ice cream truck will be cruising the streets of the Gaslamp
district offering free ice cream and giveaways to the public (Three Zombies and
ParaNorman himself will be roaming the area as well)!
SYNOPSIS:
PARANORMAN is set in the town of Blithe Hollow, whose locals profit from mining
the town’s history as the site, 300 years ago, of a famous witch hunt.
11-year-old Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee) spends much of his days
appreciating the finer points of scary movies and studying ghost lore. In fact,
Norman is gifted with the ability to see and speak with the dead, such as his
beloved grandmother (Elaine Stritch). Most days, he prefers their company to
that of his flustered father (Jeff Garlin), spacey mother (Leslie Mann), and
deeply superficial older sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick). At middle school,
Norman dodges bullying Alvin (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), confides in the
impressionable Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), and tries to tune out his blowhard
teacher Mrs. Henscher (Alex Borstein).
Norman is unexpectedly contacted by his odd uncle
Prenderghast (John Goodman), who floors him with the revelation that a
centuries-old witch’s curse is real and is about to come true, and that only
Norman will be able to stop it from going into overdrive and harming the
townspeople. Norman bravely summons up all that makes a hero – courage and
compassion – as he finds his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly
limits.
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