Wallace & Gromit

Brilliant! Finally the boys at Dreamworks have signed on the dotted line and agreed to support the release of the new, full-length Wallace & Gromit Movie. Jeffrey Katzenberg has confirmed that it’ll be released around October 2005. Sweet.
Initially the film was due for release over Thanksgiving period, 2004 but so much for that idea! I reckon, more so than real-actor movies, these kinds of films can be forgiven for going a bit overtime. I mean stop-motion photography - can there be a more painstaking process of film making?
24 Frames for 1 second of film. If the movie is say, around an hour, twenty minutes long, that equates to around 115200 separate positions that the delicate clay models have to be positioned in and then images that have to be collated and edited into a final movie. Thats a lot of work!
Theres still some undecision with regards to the final title of movie. “The Great Vegetable Plot” or “Wallace & Gromit in The Were Rabbit”… Until future notice however, Dreamworks is simply referring to it as “Wallace & Gromit: The Movie”.
Thats it boys, keep it simple. Kinda brings to mind some weird imagery of the potential storyline doesn’t it? Well according to USA Today, its a vegetarian horror movie. Wallace & Gromit are hired to investigate a spate of savage attacks vegetable gardens. So I guess a kind of Friday the 13th VS The Cooking Channel kind of plot? Hmmm sounds interesting to say the least.
Me, I’ve always been a fan of the Wallace & Gromit movies so I’ll definately be there on opening night.
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