One of the more unexpected comparisons of late came the other week when the producer of “Paddington in Peru,” the upcoming third film in that family franchise, likened the movie to the very adult dark class warfare satire “Triangle of Sadness”.
Well now that comparison may have a run for its money as filmmaker Sam Fell, the director of Aardman Studios’ long-awaited “Chicken Run” sequel “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” has made an interesting connection between his film and a Marvel hit.
The new stop-motion animated film sees several of the characters from the original having escaped chickens from Tweedy’s farm and have established new lives for themselves on an island bird sanctuary.
Speaking with Empire, Fell discussed the new film’s much bigger scale and says the chicken’s new island paradise home is comparable to a certain fictional country from “Black Panther”:
“It’s Wakanda for chickens. The whole film is a bigger scale really. It’s all organic and warm, not a straight line in the place – nothing regimented, very organic and idyllic.
It’s a beautiful, natural place. We spent time early on developing the world – the flowers, their gardens, and just thinking, ‘How would a chicken want to live? How would a chicken build a house? What’s their world like?’
You get yourself down to that level and start imagining objects – how big they are, and how you might utilise them.
They’re obviously semi-human, these chickens, they talk. It was just nice thinking it through from scratch. ‘What do they need on that island?’ They don’t need that much actually, chickens – that’s what I like about them.”
Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi take over the two key roles of Ginger and Rocky in the film that will hit Netflix on December 15th – a full 23 years after the original, which pulled in over $227 million at the worldwide box office.
