For the first time in 20 years, there is a new Wallace and Gromit feature – and this one is coming Netflix.
Subtitled Avenger RevengeThis adventure featuring the lovable stop-motion duo is technically a sequel to one of their most popular shorts, 1993’s “The Wrong Pants.” It features the return of that short’s villainous penguin, Feathers McGraw, who is now searching for, what else? , if not revenge.
Co-directed by Wallace and Gromit Creator Nick Park, the film was made in the same stop-motion style that Park and Aardman Animations are known for. You can watch the teaser for Avenger Revenge below:
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This is the first feature to include Wallace’s new voice, Ben Whitehead. His original actor, Peter Sallis, passed away in 2017. Whitehead has provided vocals for Wallace in several Wallace and Gromit video games and as a “stand-in” for Sallis in the 2008 short “A Matter of Loaf and Death.”
Here’s the official synopsis for the new film:
Aardman’s four-time Oscar®-winning director Nick Park and Emmy-nominated Merlin Crossingham return with an all-new epic adventure, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. In this next chapter, Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents an “intelligent” gnome that appears to develop a mind of its own. When it’s discovered that a vengeful figure from the past may be the mastermind, it’s up to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!
Wallace and Gromit: Most Birds’ Revenge is set to debut on Netflix on January 3, 2025.
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