Peach For The Sky!
DIRECTOR HENRY SELICK WAS ONLY halfway through The Nightmare Before Christmas when he started thinking about what he should do next. After years spent plugging away as a stopmotion animator at places like MTV and Disney, he’d finally established his own studio, Selick/Burton Productions, with producing partner Tim Burton – and acquired a crack team of animators who specialised in telling stories that had to be painstakingly captured one frame at a time.
Jack Skellington’s festive foray was proving to be huge fun – and Selick wanted to continue that fun. All he needed was a new story with the same dark and delightful sensibilities. Combining the harrowing with the heartfelt, Roald Dahl’s 1961 book ticked all the right boxes. It tells the story of James, a young orphan who’s forced to live with his cruel aunts, Spiker and Sponge, after his parents are gobbled up by a rhino. Just when he thinks all is lost, he encounters a mysterious stranger who offers him a bag of glowing crocodile tongues. Soon, they find their way into a nearby peach tree,
