Mrs. Tweedy Returns for More Fowl Play in ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Teaser
Not seen on screens since her plans to turn a farmyard of animated chickens into pies were thwarted more than 20 years ago, Mrs. Tweedy — the evil arch-nemesis of Aardman’s 2000 stop-motion classic Chicken Run — has returned for the long-awaited sequel.
In the teaser trailer for Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget — which will have its world premiere at the London Film Festival before landing on Netflix Dec. 15 — Tweedy, again voiced by Miranda Richardson, is revealed as the supervillain for Ginger (Thandiwe Newton) and her flock once more, this time as the brains behind a terrifying new culinary invention threatening their existence, the chicken nugget.
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“Last time we escaped from a chicken from a chicken farm… well this time, we’re breaking in,” says Ginger in the teaser, providing a loose summary of the plot, which picks up from the original and sees the newly freed chickens team up to take on Tweedy’s diabolical nugget factory.
U.K. comic hero Peter Serafinowicz has also joined the cast, alongside the already announced Zachary Levi (Rocky), Bella Ramsey (Molly), Imelda Staunton (Bunty), Lynn Ferguson (Mac), David Bradley (Fowler), Jane Horrocks (Babs), Romesh Ranganathan (Nick), Daniel Mays (Fetcher), Josie Sedgwick-Davies (Frizzle) and Nick Mohammed (Dr Fry).
From multi-Oscar and BAFTA-winning animation pioneers Aardman (Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep), Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is directed by Sam Fell (ParaNorman, Flushed Away).
“They say a movie is only as good as its villain and Ginger’s nemesis, Mrs Tweedy is one of the all-time greats. Now she’s out to take industrial-scale revenge on all chicken-kind with the Dawn of the Nugget,” said Fell.
“We’ve had so much fun working with Miranda Richardson to transform Melisha Tweedy into the ultimate 1960’s super-villain. Miranda has a unique understanding of drama and comedy, making you laugh while scaring the pants off you in the exact same moment. Also rounding out our fantastic cast is Peter Serafinowicz playing Reginald Smith, a slightly bemused businessman visiting Mrs Tweedy’s giant nugget factory. It takes a particular kind of comic genius to play the foil to Miranda Richardson’s hilariously frightening archvillain. Peter pulls it off with effortless finesse.”
See the Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget trailer below.
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