On February 6, director Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas) sees his most recent stop-motion feature film hit theaters. Coraline follows the curious adventures of a young girl as she discovers a secret door in her new house that leads her to some sort of alternate version of her very own life. But this new version of her current life is somehow better, like a fairytale, that is until her alternative parents decide they want to keep her there forever.

Dakota Fanning voices the lead role of Coraline and Desperate Housewives Teri Hatcher and The Daily Show's John Hodgman step in as Coraline's real and alternate parents. The film is based on Neil Gaiman's children's book of the same name. Gaiman also wrote the novel turned film Stardust and co-wrote the screenplay for Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf.

Below we have the trailer that Neil Gaiman himself has been promoting and linking like crazy all over Twitter. His linking actually prompted me to ask him via Twitter, how much input he gets on trailers and posters promoting the film (I wasn't expecting much despite the fact he wrote the book). His answer: "I always get input. Sometimes my input 'That's dreadful,' and sometimes the reply is 'Tough.'" His short and concise answer is limited by Twitter's 140 character limit in micro-blog updates but the point is clear. It's really sad that when the creator of an intellectual property has the chance to see his work transformed into a new medium and he's completely disregarded at times. Obviously I don't know any of the key details, but this is definitely something I'm sure happens frequently with adaptations.

Anyway, the Neil Gaiman approved internet only trailer is embedded below. Enjoy!