News Wildwood Wildwood Trailer Uncovers the Dark Fantasy Hidden in Portland’s Woods They’re really good woods, I promise By Molly Templeton | Published on May 13, 2026 Image: Laika Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Laika Despite having read Colin Meloy’s Wildwood, and having watched every snippet of video Laika has released about their next animated film, it didn’t occur to me until just now that the story is kind of a sister story to Labyrinth. (Which also recalls Maurice Sendak’s Outside Over There; we do love to steal little siblings in stories!) Except it’s no sexy David Bowie spiriting away the little brother of Prue McKeel, but a murder of crows. (An extremely believable bit of wild magic for Portland, where the story is set.) But still: Prue has to venture into a world unlike the one she knows—and yet not so far away—to get her little brother back. En route, she will meet all kinds of characters and animals, and make her way to a castle of sorts. In this case the castle is Portland’s Pittock Mansion, recreated by hand. This teaser trailer is so very Portland that one might wonder if the tourism board had a hand in it: the iconic St. John’s Bridge! The waterfront in cherry blossom season! The area around the Saturday Market! I won’t harp on it, but that’s a pretty long bike ride for a kid with her baby brother in tow. Not that I’m complaining. Wildwood is a very Portland story: it shares its name with the Wildwood Trail, nearly 30 miles of beautiful hiking through two of our biggest parks. The novel transforms Forest Park into a place even more magical than it already is—and not without its share of dangers. The voice cast includes Carey Mulligan, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Awkwafina, Jake Johnson, Charlie Day, Amandla Stenberg, Jemaine Clement, Maya Erskine, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Waits, and Richard E. Grant. The movie is directed by Travis Knight (Bumblebee) from a screenplay by Chris Butler (Kubo and the Two Strings). These are also the men responsible for the upcoming Masters of the Universe live-action film. This is a bit perplexing—one film looks so very much better than the other—but people do contain multitudes. Wildwood is in theaters on October 23.[end-mark] The post <i>Wildwood</i> Trailer Uncovers the Dark Fantasy Hidden in Portland’s Woods appeared first on Reactor.