Update: Apparently David Cronenberg is NOT producing the film. However, Martin Katz is still attached to the project.
James Stewart’s fantastic stop-motion short film Foxed has been sweeping awards and earning nominations throughout the film festival circuit for a couple of years and now it’s available to watch online.
What’s even cooler is that director David Cronenberg (eXistenZ, The Fly) has confirmed that he will be producing an adaptation of the short into a feature length film, alongside his frequent collaborator Martin Katz.
Stewart is writing and directing the feature length adaptation, which will blend traditional stop-motion animation with 3D techniques, a lá Coraline.
The synopsis for Foxed reads:
When young Emily is kidnapped by foxes and forced to work in the mysterious underground Blue Goo Mines, she must use everything she’s got to get back home and uncover the foxes’ secret plan!
The full-length film is set to come out in 2017.