- Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele rejoin for the role of two demon brothers.
- They trying to flee the abyss in Wendell and Wild.
- Demon brothers Wendell and Wild are imprisoned in the underworld.
Comedy team Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele rejoin for the role of two demon brothers trying to flee the abyss in Wendell and Wild.
The stop-motion film, which debuted in theatres on October 21 and will be available on Netflix on October 28, is a frightening mash-up of concepts and sources, including writer-directors Henry Selick and Jordan Peele of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline.
Just in time for Halloween, the two of them have produced a PG-13 dark comedy with stomping afro-punk music, a plotline about the prison system, varied representation, and a terrific ensemble playing hilariously creative characters.
Let this page serve as your guide if you’re embarking on your own personal green shadow quest to learn more about the cast and characters of this breathtaking and unsettling movie. Just be careful not to let any of your own personal demons loose along the road.
Demon brothers Wendell and Wild are imprisoned in the underworld and forced to live on Buffalo Belzer, the dreadful and evil lord of the underworldscalp. ,’s Wendell and Wild, with the aid of a trusting girl named Kat, plot their escape and attempt to infiltrate the human realm while munching on psychedelic hair gel. The brothers move from harassing Kat in her dreams to terrorizing her hometown in an effort to transform it into an undead theme park.
They are not particularly dangerous, but they are full of turmoil and sneaky fun. Having made a bargain with the orphan, these two are at best problematic. They might wind up performing a few good deeds while enriching their lives with foolish and nasty crimes.
Unmatched riffing by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele is arguably the film’s main draw. Since the end of their television series Key and Peele in 2015, the duo has gone on to enjoy successful careers on their own, occasionally working together on projects. Recently, Keegan-Michael Key played an enthusiastic actor filming while under quarantine from Covid-19 in the 2022 comedic movie The Bubble.
The Keanu actor most recently played Reed Sterling, a member of the cast of a dysfunctional family sitcom, in the comedy series Reboot. Jordan Peele has developed a sizable career behind the camera while taking on voice acting gigs in recent years. Peele, who is best known for the mind-bending horror movies Get Out and Us, recently ventured into the world of aliens with his sci-fi horror mystery Nope.
For fans of Jordan Peele, the collaboration of the maestro of horror with the master of stop-motion is a dream come true. In an interview with Collider’s Steve Weintraub, Henry Selick discussed working with Jordan Peele and claimed that “so many of his ideas were fresh and better and I accepted them.” See the complete interview down below.
Kat is a young goth orphan who has experienced trauma and who possesses a strange, paranormal talent: the capacity to see and interact with her own particular demons. Kat, who is motivated and inquisitive, was recently transferred from juvie to the dilapidated and eerie Catholic school where the most of the novel is set.
Kat discovers that she must accept the circumstances that led to her parents’ deaths as well as the defects that tie her to her demons with the aid of one of the school’s nuns. Kat embarks on a voyage of self-discovery as a Hellmaiden and fights to defend her house from the demons she herself summoned while wearing an enormous sweatshirt and holding a stereo in her hand.
Lyric Ross is well-known for playing Déjà Pearson on a regular basis in the popular drama This Is Us. Ross is now shooting Ironheart, the forthcoming Marvel television series.
Sister Helly assists Kat in facing her demons through a “green-lit” shadow voyage. Sister Helly, the stern yet compassionate arch enemy of brothers Wendell and Wild, might find that in order to stop something even more terrible from taking control, she must cooperate with the cunning demonic pair.
Marvel fans will remember Angela Bassett as the graceful and strong Queen Ramonda from Black Panther. She is most known for her appearances in the 1990s movies Strange Days and Contact, as well as as a seductive modern Marie Laveau in American Horror Story.
Fans are undoubtedly excited to see the queen on screen once more as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel, is already about to hit theaters. In the interim, viewers will be able to hear Bassett as she provides the voice of the demon-dusting Sister Helly.
The Olympus Has Fallen actress’s involvement in Wendell and Wild is not her first experience with voice acting; she has also brought to life characters in the animated television series The Simpsons, BoJack Horseman, and the Transformers movie Bumblebee.
The unassuming priest Father Bests is in charge of the uninteresting boarding school where Kat is enrolled. Father Bests is willing to do anything to protect his school, but when he receives a call from a wicked businessman who wants to convert the area into a jail so he can benefit from mass incarceration, he is smacked over the head with a reality he never anticipated.
One of the most known voices in cinema and television belongs to James Hong. Although Hong is most remembered for his live-action performance as David Lo Pan in the 1986 film Big Trouble in Little China, he has also played a variety of roles in animated films, most notably Mr. Ping, Po’s adoptive geese father in Kung Fu Panda. He played Grandpa in the Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai television series earlier this year, and he now has three projects in post-production, including Patsy Lee and The Keepers of the 5 Kingdoms. Hong will play a curio shop owner who travels to a mythical place with his granddaughter in the upcoming action movie.
The demons wreaking devastation on the town are invisible to Raul, a young trans guy and fellow outsider. He makes friends with new youngster Kat, a fellow goth with a spikey emo hairdo and gauged ears, over their shared experiences with loneliness and being different.
Along with being helpful and nice, Raul is also a wonderful artist and a great friend. Sam Zelaya, an upcoming actor, plays Raul. Prior to this, Zelaya made an appearance in the quick, soap opera-style movie Poppets. The voice actor’s debut voice acting roles will be in Wendell and Wild.
Siobhan, Sloane, and Sweetie are the epitome of stereotypical cruel girls, replete with a cuddly pet. Kat is left with a bad taste in her mouth after meeting the popular kids and their goat. Tamara Smart plays the part of Siobhan, which is not her first horror role but is her first voice acting job.
She gained notoriety for her most recent roles as Kelly Ferguson in A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting and Young Jade Wesker in the Netflix Resident Evil series. As Sloane, Seema Virdi plays her very first acting role. She is one of the storyboard artists for Wendell and Wild and has previously worked as a storyboard artist for video games, programs, and movies. For her recurring appearances as Eleanor Wong in Never Have I Ever and Mona Wu in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Romana Young, who voices Sweetie, is well-known.
In search of his missing prisoners, a much bigger, badder, and worse demon finds its way to the surface of the human world. The titular demon twins were under the control of an underworld lord named Buffalo Belzer before they escaped. Wendell and Wild were scheming to demolish Buffalo Belzer’s undead amusement park while they spent their days maintaining Buffalo Belzer’s hair. He runs through the churchyard to terrorize and devastate the area after tracking the brothers down to their own macabre theme park.
Ving Rhames has some experience in voice acting, although he is best recognized for his on-screen characters, including Luther Stickell from the Mission: Impossible films and Marsellus Wallace from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. He will play Stickell once more in the future Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning films, which are slated to debut in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
Along with these performers and characters, Wendell and Wild also contains the vocal talents of Maxine Peake, Gary Gatewood, Tantoo Cardinal, Igal Naor, and Natalie Martinez from Death Race, Dances with Wolves, Grimm, A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Homeland (The Theory of Everything).
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