New Wallace & Gromit Adventure!
Posted by Fred on October 5, 2007
Jason Kottke and I seem to have similar taste in movies, or at least animation. First Wall-E, and now news of a new Wallace & Gromit adventure, Trouble At’ Mill.
Trouble At’ Mill, to be shown on BBC1, is in pre-production now, shooting starts in January, it will be finished for Autumn/Christmas 08. All production will take place at the Aardman studios in Bristol.
After the incredible success of Curse of The Were-Rabbit Nick is delighted to return to the 30 minute format, “I love making films for the cinema but the production of Chicken Run and Curse of the Were-Rabbit were virtually back to back and each film took 5 years to complete, Trouble At’ Mill will be so much quicker to make and I can’t wait to get back into production.” The new film will reunite Nick with writer Bob Baker who co-wrote both The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave.
Wallace and Gromit have a brand new business. The conversion of 62 West Wallaby Street is complete and impressive, the whole house is now a granary with ovens and robotic kneading arms. Huge mixing bowls are all over the place and everything is covered with a layer of flour. On the roof is a ‘Wallace patent-pending’ old-fashioned windmill. The transformation is perfect.
Although business is booming, Gromit is concerned by the news that 12 local bakers have ‘disappeared’ this year – but Wallace isn’t worried. He’s too distracted and ‘dough-eyed’ in love with local beauty and bread enthusiast, Piella Bakewell, to be of much help.
I assume we Yanks will get to see it on DVD, like the other W&G shorts. Were-Rabbit was really good, and Chicken Run was fun, but not nearly as good. With all respect to Nick Park and Aardman, their attempt at Americanizing their very British sensibilities with Flushed Away was not good. The kids liked it, to be sure, but it was virtually indistinguishable from lots of other non-Pixar flurry-of-action computer animation.
Here’s some stills from the W&G site (reproduced here because you really shouldn’t have to register to see a JPG).
