Chicken Run 2 director says Netflix sequel was "a list of difficult challenges"
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget director Sam Fell has admitted that making the movie presented "a list of difficult challenges".
The long-awaited Aardman animated sequel is set to drop next month on Netflix, reuniting fans with favourites including Rocky and Ginger.
Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, Fell spoke about some of the differences that came over two decades after the last movie was released.
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"The thing that attracted me from the beginning was the notion of: this time, they’re breaking in," he noted.
"It gave us this kind of film for Aardman to tackle, like a heist movie, like a break-in, and it was such a delightful premise. It gives you so much comedy – these unlikely action heroes; these little-scale props.
"And then thinking about the new era of farming – this gigantic factory farm, making these nuggets, and the fun of exaggerating that into this ludicrous, high-security Bond villain’s lair, and then putting Mrs Tweedy at the middle of it as this supervillain.
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"We had so much fun with that. And then at some point it was like, 'Oh.'"
Fell elaborated: "The perfect stop-motion scene is two characters inside a room. Think of Wallace and Gromit having breakfast in The Wrong Trousers. That is your sort of perfect stop-motion scenario.
"Now, having chickens outdoors, in the land of the giants, with water and crowds and fireworks and popcorn – it was pretty much a list of difficult challenges."
The director explained that alongside it being "a bigger, badder challenge for the chickens to break into this place", it was also "a bigger challenge for the whole crew and the studio to kind of achieve this".
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Going on to praise the crew, Fell admitted: "They’ve blown me away with what they’ve done. They’ve really pulled it off. They’re an amazing team down there. Nothing will stop them.
"The story demanded it and it’s a milestone. This movie is a milestone, and the first movie was a milestone.
"I was there," he further recalled. "Because the studio really scaled up from making half-hours to making Chicken Run a feature film, it was a big deal, and they had to train new people, and find new techniques. It really transformed the studio, that movie.
"In a way, this is also another new milestone movie, and it’s become another big challenge. In some ways, it’s also transformed the studio."
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is in select UK cinemas from December 8 and released on Netflix on December 15.
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