{"id":449104,"date":"2023-12-16T07:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/?p=449104"},"modified":"2023-12-16T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T07:32:59","slug":"chicken-run-writers-share-heartbreaking-fire-that-almost-destroyed-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totalcelnews.com\/tv-movies\/chicken-run-writers-share-heartbreaking-fire-that-almost-destroyed-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Run writers share \u2018heartbreaking\u2019 fire that almost \u2018destroyed\u2019 sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget official teaser<\/h3>\n

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has been in production for years, with stop-motion animation taking a little longer to put together than standard Hollywood blockbusters.<\/p>\n

However, the Aardman Animation sequel has been faced with a number of extra hurdles to overcome starting with a fire in 2005 that devastated the studio’s main base in Bristol.<\/p>\n

The October blaze was reportedly started by an electrical fault in the early hours of the morning and destroyed hundreds of props, sets, puppets and characters from multiple beloved British franchises like Wallace and Gromit.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many of the puppets, rough drafts of scripts and other original items from the 2000 Chicken Run were also consumed by the fire.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Daily Express at the sequel\u2019s London premiere, writers Nick Park and Karey Kirkpatrick recalled the \u201cheartbreaking\u201d event.<\/p>\n

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Karey, who wrote the original screenplay in 2000, shared: \u201cThere were many brilliant jokes destroyed by that fire, thank goodness the films didn\u2019t go anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, at the time the screenwriter also had a few drafts of the script saved on his own computer which became incredibly helpful when he started working on the sequel with Nick.<\/p>\n

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget sees Ginger (Thandiwe Newton), Rocky (Zachary Levi) and their daughter, Molly (Bella Ramsey), uncover a new threat to the flocks\u2019 hard-earned freedom on Chicken Island, which sees them breaking in rather than breaking out this time.<\/p>\n

However, Nick and Karey revealed that their original idea for the sequel was drastically different from what fans will see on-screen as they had centered the story on a father-son relationship between Rocky and an unrealized character called Nobby.<\/p>\n

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Karey explained: \u201cIt was an inside joke; there was a character in the first movie that we cut, his name was Nobbie and he was a kid chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n

As they worked to get a story going, and with the theme of family in mind, the pair agreed that the film\u2019s leads Rocky and Ginger should have a child which brought them back to Nobbie.<\/p>\n

Karey continued: \u201cWe thought, innocently; \u2018Wouldn\u2019t it be fun if we brought Knobbie back?\u2019 because we had his design.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wrote a father-son story and everybody was like: \u2018What are you thinking?! The first Chicken Run is a feminist anthem, why are you making this a father-son story?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n