‘Chicken Run’ Returns With ‘Dawn of the Nugget’ Trailer

The highest-grossing stop-motion animated movies in the history of cinema is Chicken Run, the 2000 stop-motion animated film from Peter Lord and Nick Park and Aardman Animation. So it was only a matter of time before someone tried to make a sequel. Now, granted, it was a matter of a lot of time in this case, but 23 years later, here is Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. This sequel is headed straight to Netflix instead of to theaters, and features new voices in several of the story’s key roles. Rocky, the chicken previously voiced by Mel Gibson is now portrayed by Zachary Levi, while Ginger, previously performed by Julia Sawalha, was replaced by Thandiwe Newton. (Sawalha claimed she was told by the filmmakers that she was “too old” to play her role again, and wasn’t even given a chance to re-audition for her old part.) Actors who did return for this sequel include Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, and Miranda Richardson.