Launching December 15,Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nuggetwill arrive 23 years after the cult originalChicken Run.
Shes a reluctant hero.
Shes a bit like Ripley inAlien.
Chicken Run: Dawn Of The NuggetAardman/Netflix
She is traumatized by what she has lived through.
She doesnt want to go back, said producer Layla Hobart, who joined Lord and Fell on stage.
Lord recalled how he and Aardman co-founder Nick Park had flown to Hollywood to pitch the original film.
L-R Robert Marianetti and David Wachtenheim, Jane Wu, Robert Smigel,Erwin Stoff, Sam Fell, host Brooke Keesling, Leyla Hobart, Peter, Troy Quane, ND Stevenson, Nick Bruno
We had dinner with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg and we were eating chicken.
The Hollywood pitch wasThe Great Escapewith chickens, he said.
Theyre so vivid that everyone knows them 23 years later, he said.
The other thing is the execution.
It is taking a brilliant line between dark and dramatic and light and funny.
He talked through the development of the sinister Happy Land factory farming facility backdrop.
Weve moved it into the 60s and an era of industrial farming.
you might imagine that the recipe for the first nugget would be a highly guarded secret.
It would be top security, he explained.
It gave us kind of a genre to work in.
We got into this notion of it being a Bond movie with chickens.
Revealing that his wife his Korean, Stoff said the project had chimed with him for similar reasons.
We hope people of all ages will relate to it.
