Stop-motion animation studio LAIKA will expand into live-action with Seventeen, a film adaptation of John Brownlow's upcoming debut novel of the same name.

“For the past 15 years, LAIKA has been committed to making movies that matter,” said LAIKA President and CEO Travis Knight. "Across mediums and genres, our studio has fused art, craft, and technology in service of bold, distinctive, and enduring stories. With Seventeen, LAIKA is taking that philosophy in an exciting new direction.”

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“Seventeen is a stiff cocktail of wicked wit, exhilarating action, and raw emotion,” Knight continued. “John has such a wonderfully unique voice. He’s crafted a brilliant universe with its own powerful identity. Seventeen is a thriller with soul, a sinuous adrenaline-fueled actioner with a sincere heart beating underneath its rippling pectorals.”

Prior to authoring Seventeen, Brownlow wrote 2003's Sylvia, a film biography about the real-life romance between poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. He also wrote the 2014 mini-series Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond -- featuring Dominic Cooper as James Bond creator Ian Fleming -- and the 2017 mini-series The Miniaturist, starring The Queen's Gambit's Anya Taylor-Joy.

“I am absolutely thrilled to be developing Seventeen for the screen with LAIKA,” said Brownlow. “As a long-time fan of LAIKA’s movies for their vision, heart, craft, intelligence and ambition, I couldn’t have hoped for the novel or the universe it inhabits to have found a better or more exciting home. I’m beyond honored to be part of their plans for the future.”

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Founded in 2005, LAIKA released their first feature, Coraline, in 2009. An adaptation of Neil Gaiman's dark children's fantasy novel of the same name, Coraline was a critical and financial hit, securing a nomination for Best Animated Feature Film of the Year at the 2010 Academy Awards. LAIKA has released four stop-motion animated movies since then (ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and Missing Link), all of which have earned generally positive reviews. However, in spite of this, the studio has seen diminishing returns at the box office since 2014.

In addition to developing Seventeen, LAIKA is confirmed to be working on their sixth, as-yet untitled stop-motion animated feature film. Elsewhere, the UK-based publisher Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the worldwide rights to Brownlow's book, which will be published in the U.S. in 2022.

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Source: LAIKA