The official website for Wallace & Gromit now has a video in which Nick Park says he is making a new half-hour film featuring these wonderful characters. (Hat tip to ComingSoon.net.)
UPDATE: The Variety story adds the following quotes from Park:
“I love making films for the cinema but the production of ‘Chicken Run‘ and ‘Curse of the Were-Rabbit’ were virtually back to back and each film took five years to complete, ‘Trouble At’ Mill’ will be so much quicker to make and I can’t wait to get back into production,” commented Park.
For the project, writer/director Park re-unites with Bob Baker, with whom he co-wrote “Trousers” and “Shave.”
“It’s nice to be out of that feature film pressure now. I don’t feel like I’m making a film for a kid in some suburb of America — and being told they’re not going to understand a joke, or a northern saying,” Park told the BBC.
“I’m making this for myself again and the people who love Wallace and Gromit.”
The news sites linked here also mention that the new short film will be a “murder mystery”. I wonder how literally we are supposed to take that; unless I am forgetting something, I don’t believe anyone has ever died in a Wallace & Gromit cartoon before. Hmmm.
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