Savage Popcorn

After parting company with Dreamworks and then signing a deal with Sony, Aardman Animation has unveiled a superb slate of upcoming projects.

Writers Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah of Life on Mars fame are to join director Steve Box on The Cat Burglars, a claymation film milk thieving stray cats. The film promises to combine the comedy action of Wallace and Gromit with the cool styling of Ocean’s Eleven.

Peter Lord also returns to the directors chair with a comedy adventure based on the Pirates series of books written by Gideon Defoe. Lord and Defoe will be joined by writers ndy Riley and Kevin Cecil, whose credits include Hyperdrive and Slacker Cats.

Also signed up is Peter Baynham who is developing Operation Rudolph, an action film set on Christmas night that will show the North Pole operation as an exhilarating ultra high-tech military procedure on a massive scale, revealing how Santa and his huge army of combat elves get round the whole world in one night.

And Nick Park is working on something, but no-one is saying what yet.

As Todd at Twitch remarks: Everyone at Dreamworks, Prepare to Kick Yourselves. Hard.

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