(Annecy) Chickens in modeling clay Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nuggetsequel to the cult film from the creators of Wallace and Gromitwill create the event on Netflix on December 15, 23 years after their theatrical success, the platform announced on Wednesday during the Annecy festival.
The first opus, which followed the escape of Ginger and her congeners, trapped in a farm converted into the production of chicken pies, remains the animated film in stop motion (by volume and frame by frame) the most profitable in history.
In its sequel, still entrusted to the British studios Aardman, we find Ginger and Rocky, installed in a paradise island with their daughter Molly, attracted by the outside world, so threatening for delicious chickens.
When Molly finds herself trapped in a fortress-like factory farm, her parents and their friends will do everything to get inside. “It’s a bit of a James Bond film, but with chickens,” summed up director Sam Fell, who came to present three enticing scenes to festival-goers.
Netflix, which is also offering an exhibition of the puppets used in the film in Annecy, has lifted the veil on other productions already announced, trying to reassure the sector about its appetite for animation after several aborted projects.
The giant of streaming will unveil on Wednesday in Annecy Nimona, a feature film with innovative graphics taken from an eponymous comic strip by ND Stevenson. Released on June 30, this production follows a teenager capable of shapeshifting at will and her friendship with a knight wrongly accused of a crime, in a half-medieval, half-futuristic world.
Also on the program for this fall, the 3D film Leowhere Adam Sandler lends his voice to a 74-year-old lizard who escapes from his terrarium, installed in a cm class2after learning that he only has one year left to live.
Netflix also showed snippets of its upcoming adult action series Blue Eye Samuraicreated in particular by a screenwriter from Logan, Michael Green. Announced for this year, it traces the adventures of a mixed-race swordsman seeking revenge in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868).
Mentioned in a video presentation of the current projects, the highly anticipated animated series Asterix of Alain Chabat has not yet given rise to further details.