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Del Toro’s Adult Stop-Motion “Buried Giant” Greenlit by Netflix

5/10/2026

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Guillermo Del Toro announced a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s *The Buried Giant* during his Film Institute lifetime achievement award.
He called it a difficult stop-motion movie for adults, said animation avoids the uncanny valley of live-action puppets, and warned the film will take years because creatures must be made from the same material.
Netflix backs the film after opening a new stop-motion studio last October to support Del Toro.

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Guillermo Del Toro announced a stop-motion adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s *The Buried Giant* during his Film Institute lifetime achievement award.
He called it a difficult stop-motion movie for adults, said animation avoids the uncanny valley of live-action puppets, and warned the film will take years because creatures must be made from the same material.
Netflix backs the film after opening a new stop-motion studio last October to support Del Toro.