![]() ![]() I would take the first stab, and he would rewrite. What was the collaboration process between you and Jordan Peele like? Did you both schedule and work on the screenplay together? spoke to Selick about the collaboration between him and Jordan Peele, the unique visual look of "Wendell & Wild," and balancing between the supernatural and the social commentary. Amid the demon entities, a rich and murderous conservative family crafts a sinister plot to open up a private prison institution where Rust Banks used to be. Through supernatural circumstances, Kat finds herself becoming a hell maiden to two scheming demon brothers Wendell ( Keegan Michael Key) and Wild (Jordan Peele), who want to open up an amusement park in the land of the living. “There were only hints to Jordan's sensibilities in ‘Key and Peele’ that leaked through some cracks here and there in regard to something that might be strange or macabre.The dark horror-comedy tells the story of 13-year-old Kat Elliot ( Lyric Ross), a rebellious gothic orphan attending an all-girls Catholic school close to her burned-down hometown Rust Banks where she suffered the loss of her parents. “There's almost a sense of evolution to me, in a way,” says Key. Peele actually began working with Selick before the end of “Key & Peele." (Stop-motion animation takes a long time.) But, if anything, “Wendell and Wild,” with dazzlingly dark designs and a PG-13 story centered around family trauma, marries the duo's earlier comedy with Peele's more nightmarish films since. The best lines are things they just thought of spontaneously.” “We weren’t going to stop because it was a miracle just to see them reconnect. ![]() “There’s at least three whole comedy albums worth of outtakes of these guys just riffing,” says Selick. Looking back on ‘Key and Peele,’ one of my favorite things is the idea that you get sent sketches and people say ‘There’s a Key and Peele’ for that.”įor “Wendell & Wild,” the two insisted on being together while recording much of the voice tracks, eager to return to the energy they had together on “Key & Peele.” (They also lent their voices to a pair of plush toys in “Toy Story 4.”) Nothing can replicate going through a period like that. There is a familial connection that’s very strong. In some ways, it’s completely unexplainable. ![]() “It was like a blur,” Key says of the five seasons of “Key & Peele.” “There’s a general feeling that there was passion, that there was focus, that there was love. With that Peele and Key launch again into an impromptu bit, muttering a secret plan over frenetic phone calls into their hands and making mock Facetimes. “Certainly this is the first but I do not think it will be the last by any means.” It’s going to be very intentional,” Peele says. “I think people sort of get that when Key and Peele does something, it’s going to be very special. Since “Key & Peele” concluded in 2015, Peele has, of course, embarked on an ambitious and acclaimed filmmaking career with a trilogy of mind-bending thrillers in “Get Out,” “Us” and this year's “Nope." Key has greatly extended his acting career in film, television and on Broadway. In the stop-motion animation world, “Wendell and Wild” also stands out for its bold, punkish Black protagonist.īut for many, the appeal of seeing, even in demon-form, Key and Peele reunited is something special. It's first film by Selick, the celebrated animator of “The Nightmare Before Christmas," since 2009's “Coraline," a 13-year spell during which he spent years on a Pixar film that was abruptly canceled. “Wendell & Wild," which Netflix will release in theaters Oct. “It’s not the funniest improv game,” deadpans Peele. ![]() Key and Peele work in syncopated harmony, with a symphony of bleeps and blurps, while Selick and Ross look on uncertain of their role in this still finely-tuned comedy machine. And in a moment, the cogs of one of the century's greatest comic duos again whirls into motion. ![]()
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