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Shaun the Sequel is officially on the way
When Aardman’s $25m-budgeted Shaun the Sheep Movie took $106m at the global box office, and bagged an Oscar nomination to boot, it was pretty obvious that a sequel would follow. Indeed, distributor StudioCanal confirmed as much back in September 2015, when it was revealed that Shaun the Sheep 2 was officially in development.
Now it’s been announced that pre-production on the movie will begin in January. At the helm once again is Richard Starzak, who has herded the lovable little ovine fella through his children’s TV incarnations all the way to that 2015 Shaun the Sheep Movie. No plot details have been disclosed, beyond Aardman’s co-founder David Sproxton’s promise that it will be “another rip-roaring comedy, featuring Shaun and the rest of the gang in a story that takes them to even greater heights of lunacy.”
Nor is there an official release date. But don’t expect to see the film on screen much before 2019. The plan is that the production will take over Aardman’s Aztec West studio just as soon as filming has finished on Nick Park’s Early Man – featuring the voices of Eddie Redmayne and Tom Hiddleston – and that’s not due for release until January 26, 2018.
Read more: Production commences on Nick Park’s Early Man
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