The Lois Lane/Dream King connection

The Washington Post reports that Desperate Housewife and former Lois Lane Terri Hatcher will provide voices for the stop-motion animation adaptation of Coraline, the children's book by Neil Gaiman:

Clumsy but lovable as a single mom on the TV hit "Desperate Housewives," Teri Hatcher has signed on to play quite a different kind of mother in the first feature film from Nike chairman Phil Knight's Portland animation studio.

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Child star Dakota Fanning has already agreed to play Coraline in the film, due out sometime in 2008. Last week, Knight's studio, Laika Entertainment, announced that it will partner with Focus Features to distribute the movie.

Hatcher will voice Coraline's mother and her Other Mother, an evil version who inhabits a mirror universe that Coraline visits.

Gaiman recently shared artwork for the movie poster on his blog, seen above.