The Boxtrolls is a 2014 American stop-motion animated fantasy comedy film produced by Laika and loosely based on the 2005 novel Here Be Monsters!. Directed by Graham Annable and Anthony Stacchi and written by Irena Brignull and Adam Pava, it features the voices of Ben Kingsley, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning, Dee Bradley Baker, Steve Blum, Toni Collette, Jared Harris, Nick Frost, Richard Ayoade, Tracy Morgan, and Simon Pegg. Set in the fictional European country of Norvenia in the late 19th century, the film tells the story of Eggs, a human boy raised by trash-collecting trolls, known as "Boxtrolls", as he attempts to save them from a pest exterminator.