‘Cave of Dreams’ – Animated Horror Movie Will Bring the Dark Paintings of Francisco Goya to Life
The team behind the Vincent van Gogh-based animated movie Loving Vincent are next turning their attention to Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and this time they’re making a horror movie. Deadline reports, “The working title is Cave of Dreams and it will utilize the same painstaking ‘painted animation’ technique as Loving Vincent, which traced the later years of Van Gogh.” […]
The team behind the Vincent van Gogh-based animated movie Loving Vincent are next turning their attention to Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and this time they’re making a horror movie.
Deadline reports, “The working title is Cave of Dreams and it will utilize the same painstaking ‘painted animation’ technique as Loving Vincent, which traced the later years of Van Gogh.”
The upcoming Cave of Dreams will be based on Goya’s “Black Paintings,” a series of fourteen paintings that represent the artist’s most dark and disturbing works. Among them is “Satan Devouring His Son” (pictured above), which will surely play a big role in the animated film.
Wikipedia explains, “The Black Paintings is the name given to a group of 14 paintings by Goya from the later years of his life, probably between 1820 and 1823. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity.”
“Our next project is going to be based on the paintings of Goya and mainly on his dark paintings and his later work,” director Hugh Welchman tells Deadline. “It’s going to be a ‘painted-animation’ horror film. It’s going to be such a big project that we are probably going to have at least four co-producers in Spain, and probably will have four others outside.”
Hugh Welchman will direct alongside Loving Vincent collaborator/wife Dorota Kobiela. That film got the duo an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature back in 2018.
