‘The Boxtrolls’ Teaser Shows Amazing Behind-The-Scenes Work

I’ve always watched the claymation films with a bit of awe, going back as far as the holiday specials like Frosty the Snowman to recent ones like ParaNorman and Coraline. And I’m not going to pretend I didn’t know about all of the work that goes behind each moment in the films. But the new Boxtrolls  trailer still blows me away.

The film will feature the voices of Simon Pegg, Elle Fanning, Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette and Nick Frost, but what this trailer really emphasizes is all of the work behind the making of the film. I don’t remember ever seeing a trailer exhibit this sort of work, but I think it’s a brilliant technique and makes me want to see a whole documentary on how this film (or one of the others) was made.

Perhaps this idea stems from the Visual Effects Union’s troubles from last year, or maybe they just wanted to share a small part of the making of the film; either way, this was a cool way of doing it.

The Boxtrolls storyline sounds great. It’s about an orphan taken in by a town’s garbage collectors, who happen to be trolls living in boxes. And that’s much more literal than you would think; the trolls actually wear the boxes as clothing, or seem to at least. An evil exterminator decides to rid the world of the trolls, and the orphan has to save them all.

Focus Features’ The Boxtrolls comes out in September.