Netflix has released the first trailer forAardman ’s next movie : a follow up to the animation studio ’s darling 2000poultry jailbreak Chicken Run . As with all good sequels , it seem like a twist on the original — this time the Chickens have to break in to somewhere rather than break out .
Yes , this time Ginger ( now played by Thandiwe Newton , replacing original Chicken Run star Julia Sawalha ) and her friends , having escaped to island paradise at the final stage of the first movie , bump themselves staging a prison-breaking - in at an elaborately eminent - tech chicken farm — think a minuscule more bond certificate villain stem , and a little less nesting huts and hay . But themore things have changedin the last two decade of chicken husbandry , some things have stayed the same … like the fact the farm is prevail by none other than Miranda Richardson ’s return villain Melisha Tweedy , by new scoundrel Dr. Fry ( Nick Mohammed ) and Reginald Smith ( Peter Serafinowicz ) .
It all looks suitably goofy as one would expect out of Aardman ’s riff on Mission : Impossible — a enfranchisement that ’s only stupefy wilder since Chicken Run first released — but what ’s most interesting here is seeing some of the novel voice contrive in action . Plenty of familiar stars return , like Imelda Staunton , Lynn Ferguson , and Jane Horrocks as hen trio Bunty , Mac , and Babs , but they ’re all anchored around the controversial substitute of Sawalha as Ginger , and the much less controversial replacement of Mel Gibson as Rocky the Rooster , now played byShazam star Zach Levi . The latter was more necessary given thetrajectory of Gibson ’s personain the last two ten , but it ’ll be interesting to see just how the new roll vibes with the refund stars .
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Chicken Run : Dawn of the Nugget tally Netflix December 15 .
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