{"id":34264,"date":"2023-12-11T17:37:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/the-birds-are-back-with-chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:37:04","slug":"the-birds-are-back-with-chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/the-birds-are-back-with-chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget\/","title":{"rendered":"The birds are back with &#8216;Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A sequel to the hit animated film \u201cChicken Run\u201d was inevitable, its makers told AFP, for the simple reason that chickens are just too funny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t exactly have a list but there\u2019s a clear understanding at Aardman that some animals are funny and some aren\u2019t,\u201d said Peter Lord, co-founder of the British studio behind such beloved stop-motion creations as \u201cWallace and Gromit\u201d and \u201cShaun the Sheep\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChickens are fundamentally funny creatures, aren\u2019t they,\u201d Lord told AFP.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_-Kz67kea8Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut horses aren\u2019t. Sorry, horses, but you\u2019re just too beautiful to be funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget\u201d streams on Netflix from Friday, more than 20 years after the original hit about a group of chickens trying to break out of their farm.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the task is reversed as heroes Ginger and Rocky must break into a nugget factory to rescue their headstrong daughter, voiced by \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d breakout star Bella Ramsey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Chickens\u2019 is just a funny word, too,\u201d said director Sam Fell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can add it to anything \u2014 \u2018The Great Escape\u2019 with chickens, \u2018Mission: Impossible\u2019 with chickens\u2026 it always works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new film does indeed take inspiration from the Tom Cruise franchise, as well as James Bond, as the chickens try to infiltrate a ludicrously over-the-top, high-tech nugget factory that resembles a Bond villain\u2019s lair.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all \u201cspectacularly weird\u201d, promises Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any ideas that were too weird even for an Aardman film?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a cock-fighting sub-plot at one point. It was a funny notion. I did a drawing of Rocky wearing Rocky Balboa\u2019s shorts. I thought it was funny, but it was a bit weird even for us,\u201d said Lord.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Employee-owned studio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As always, it has been painstaking work.<\/p>\n<p>Each animator \u2014 the film used up to 30 at a time \u2014 can only shoot about four seconds per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we get two minutes done in a week it\u2019s a massive celebration,\u201d said Fell.<\/p>\n<p>Animation technology has improved immensely since the original in 2000, but Aardman likes to keep the handmade feel and \u201cbuild as much as we possibly can\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The exception was for scenes with lots of chickens at once, where they used computer effects to create the background poultry \u2014 \u201cotherwise, we\u2019d still be filming it now\u201d, said Fell.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what makes a good animator, he said they tend to be \u201cpatient and insular\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt heart, they\u2019re actors, but they\u2019re very shy actors, and they\u2019d rather do it quietly in a small space with a puppet, away from everybody else,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that helps create a sense of community at the Bristol-based studio is that it was recently turned into a trust owned by its employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have sold it to some media giant and made a shed-load of money,\u201d said Lord. \u201cBut then what? They\u2019d sell it on, and eventually the thing that is so precious to us would become a commodity for other people to asset strip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChicken Run 2\u201d was the first film made under the new arrangement, and Fell said the feeling was tangible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did feel there was that spirit in the crew every day of pride, of showing what we can do and giving it to the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 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