Netflix Is Making a Chicken Run Sequel, and We Couldn’t Be More Eggcited

At final, over 23 years later, the extremely anticipated “Chicken Run” sequel is lastly on its solution to Netflix. The follow-up to the stop-motion animated 2000 basic, titled “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” unveiled its first look on Sept. 5 when Netflix launched a teaser trailer, which brings again all of the rooster and roosters for a new journey. Instead of occurring the run to interrupt out of a rooster farm, they’re breaking into one.

Netflix first announced the “Chicken Run” sequel again in June 2020, tweeting on the time, “POULTRY NEWS: Exactly 20 years to the day because the unique was launched, we are able to affirm there might be a Chicken Run sequel coming to Netflix!!” Aardman Animations is, as soon as once more, on the helm (similar to the primary movie), with administrators Nick Park and Peter Lord again as government producers. Sam Fell is the sequel’s director.

To refresh your reminiscence, “Chicken Run” is a basic film that the majority ’90s infants will keep in mind. In reality, it turned the top-grossing stop-motion animated movie on this planet on the time and nonetheless holds that title over 20 years later. In the film, Rocky (a rooster) and Ginger (a rooster) devise a plan to flee from a rooster farm after they be taught that their proprietor is planning to have them killed.

But this time round, “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” will heart on Ginger — who’s residing in a human-free, rooster paradise, and it is there that she and Rocky hatch an egg collectively, welcoming their daughter Molly, per Netflix’s synopsis. It continues, “Back on the mainland the entire of chicken-kind faces a new and horrible menace. For Ginger and her staff, even when it means placing their very own hard-won freedom in danger — this time, they’re breaking in!”

Read on for all the things else we all know in regards to the forthcoming “Chicken Run” sequel, from the brand new voice forged to the discharge date.

“Chicken Run” Sequel Teaser Trailer

“Chicken Run” Sequel Cast

Thandiwe Newton and Zachary Levi lead the voice forged as Ginger and Rocky. Joining them are Jane Horrocks as Babs, David Bradley as Fowler, Lynn Ferguson as Mac, Imelda Staunton as Bunty, Daniel Mays as Fetcher, Josie Sedgwick-Davies as Frizzle, Bella Ramsey as Molly, Romesh Ranganathan as Nick, and Nick Mohammed as Dr. Fry.

“Chicken Run” Sequel Release Date

The animated movie hits Netflix on Dec. 15.

“Chicken Run” Sequel Poster