I T HERALDS FROM WILTSHIRE

1 It may be an American movie, but The Boxtrolls – the latest from Coraline and Paranorman studio Laika – has its origins in Wiltshire, just down the road from SFX Towers. It’s the story of eponymous creatures who live under the town of Cheesebridge, a place author Alan Snow based on his home town of Trowbridge in source novel Here Be Monsters! – though back then he called it Ratbridge.

“Cheesebridge is a fictional place right above where the Boxtrolls live,” Laika CEO Travis Knight tells Red Alert. “It looks nothing like our version of it. Our architecture is kind of a fusion of European and Asian.”

“It’s like Miyazaki Europe,” adds director Anthony Stacchi.