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Are You Ready for the Scratch’n’Sniff Wallace and Gromit?
If you loved Aardman’s Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit but always felt there was something missing from your viewing experience, help is finally at hand. The great Bristol animation studio has taken its classic 2005 feature into another dimension: smell. That’s right – the new release gives you, the fortunate viewer, an opportunity for full sensory immersion in such child-delighting whiffs as stale underpants, bunny burps, Stinking Bishop and hot dog hideout. This is achieved by means of scratch’n’sniff cards handed out at screenings.
The scratch’n’sniff Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is back on screen as part of the Anim18 UK-wide celebration of British animation. It can be experienced locally at Clevedon’s Curzon cinema on September 1 and as part of September’s Encounters festival at the Watershed (times and dates to be confirmed). Anim18 also includes a rare big screen triple bill of all three of Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit shorts.
The next features in the works from the Aardman fun factory are a pair of sequels. Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon is provisionally set for release in October 2019. Currently in development is a follow-up to 2000’s Chicken Run, which remains Aardman’s biggest box office hit. It seems rather unlikely that Mel Gibson will return as the voice of Rocky the Rooster, but the script is being crafted by Karey Kirkpatrick, who wrote the original Chicken Run screenplay. Taking over as director from Nick Park and Peter Lord is Sam Fell, who directed Flushed Away for Aardman. His other credits include The Tale of Despereaux and ParaNorman.
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