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Production commences on Nick Park’s Early Man
Production has officially commenced on Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park’s new feature Early Man at Aardman’s sprawling Aztec West studio. It’s Park’s first feature since Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit eleven years ago.
To celebrate, Aardman has released a short character video and new image featuring the film’s star Dug and his sidekick Hognob, which rather suggests we can expect another of those ‘one man and his beastly chum’ yarns at which Park excels. The story follows the plucky toothy twosome as they unite their tribe and invent the game of football at a time when prehistoric critters roam the earth.
Dug will be voiced by busy Eddie Redmayne, who is shortly to be seen in the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The script is by Mark Burton, co-writer and co-director of The Shaun the Sheep Movie, and John O’Farrell. Early Man, which has a reported budget of $50m, also continues the successful partnership between Aardman and distributor StudioCanal after The Shaun the Sheep Movie grossed $80m last year. Don’t book your ticket quite yet, mind. It’s provisionally due for release on January 26, 2018.
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