Hen Run: Daybreak of the Nugget, the sequel to Aardman Animation’s 2000 stop-motion hit, is arriving 23 years after the unique. Mused director Sam Fell throughout a panel at Deadline’s Contenders London at this time, “On the finish of the primary one, you’re type of a bit sick of chickens. It takes about three or 4 years to make these items so I believe everybody needed to do new issues.”
On the time, he additionally remarked, “Animated sequels weren’t a giant factor again then, Toy Story 2 was most likely the primary nice animated sequel.”
A follow-up had been “within the background” and there have been “brainstorming classes,” however the authentic Hen Run “is so good, you’ll be able to’t do one thing lower than that,” Fell mentioned.
Quick-forward to 2016 and Fell bumped into the earlier movie’s co-director Peter Lord who instructed him, “We’ve received it, we figured it out.” The trick was a single line, “This time, they’re breaking in.” That “opened up a complete kind of alternative with a complete new type of movie like a heist film.”
The story follows Ginger, who, having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, has lastly discovered her dream – a peaceable island sanctuary for the entire flock, removed from the risks of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a bit woman known as Molly, Ginger’s completely satisfied ending appears full, however again on the mainland the entire of chicken-kind faces a brand new and horrible risk.
Daybreak of the Nugget, premiering on the London Movie Competition, will launch on Netflix December 15. Producer Leyla Hobart instructed Deadline’s Zac Ntim the mission had the help of Lord and authentic co-director Nick Park in addition to Aardman. “We’ve additionally received this actually distinctive problem of making an attempt to deliver all of that (heritage) but in addition create one thing new and I believe Netflix was the right companion to assist us discover our approach into the brand new period… In a very smart way, within the UK individuals really feel like they personal a little bit of Aardman and their characters.”
Though this can be a household movie, Ntim questioned about its political themes. Stated Fell, “We needed to make the movie for now; it’s not only a nostalgia piece… We do work in massive timeframes and large common themes, like the large common theme of life and dying… And surviving… This gang of underdogs dwelling away from the human world. How do you deliver up a household in a hostile, very harmful world. There are themes round how the world works that naturally match into this. We did goal for giant issues… However the principle factor for us is to make an excellent entertaining movie that perhaps makes you suppose a bit bit.”
Daybreak of the Nugget boasts a solid that features Thandiwe Newton (Ginger), Zachary Levi (Rocky), Bella Ramsey (Molly) and Imelda Staunton (Bunty), together with Lynn Ferguson (Mac), David Bradley (Fowler), Jane Horrocks (Babs), Romesh Ranganathan (Nick), Daniel Mays (Fetcher), Josie Sedgwick-Davies (Frizzle), Serafinowicz (Reginald Smith), Nick Mohammed (Dr Fry) and Richardson (Mrs Tweedy).
Steve Pegram and Hobart are producers and screenplay is by Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell and Rachel Tunnard. Exec producers are Peter Lord, Nick Park, Carla Shelley, Fell, Paul Kewley and Kirkpatrick.
