‘Shaun The Sheep Movie’ Sequel Announced By Aardman
Shaun the Sheep’s next grand adventure will bring him back to the big screen. The mischievous Aardman creation got his own feature film in 2015, and now he’s slated to get a sequel.Richard Starzak, who co-directed the first film with Mark Burton, will be back at the helm.
Aardman and Studiocanal announced theShaun the Sheep Moviesequel in a statement today. Said Aardman co-founderDavid Sproxton:
Shaun’s move to the big screen proved such a success with audiences around the world that he and the flock are very excited to be embarking on another big screen adventure. Aardman is partnering with StudioCanal once again to produce another rip-roaring comedy, featuring Shaun and the rest of the gang in a story that takes them to even greater heights of lunacy.
Work on theShaun the Sheep Moviesequel will get underway in January 2017. No release date has been announced.Paul Kewleywill return to produce.
First introduced in the 1995 Wallace & Gromit shortA Close Shave, Shaun the Sheep has gone on to command a formidable franchise of his own, launching a stop-motion animated TV series in 2007. At the center is Shaun, a sweet and clever sheep who is the leader of the Farmer’s flock, but has a way of getting up to trouble.
Shaun the Sheep Movie, released in 2015, followed the character as he led the other sheep on Mossy Bottom Farm to the Big City. It was a wordless delight, as charming to adults as to kids, and it went on to pick up an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature earlier this year (though it ultimately lost out to Pixar’sInside Out). It also grossed about $108 million worldwide, on a reported budget of about $25 million, so it came as not much of a surprise whenwe heard last fallthat a sequel was in development.
No details have been released about the plot of theShaun the Sheep Moviesequel, but if this teaser image is any indication we can probably assume Shaun will get up to no good again.
