Interview With "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" Directors Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl" had its world premiere at the 2024 AFI Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its story, animation, comedy, and voice acting. Directors Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham were kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Netflix and is up for your consideration in all eligible categories at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview
0:05.0	with the directors of Wallace and Gromit, Vengeance Most Fowl, Nick Park and Merlin,
0:10.9	Crossingham.
0:11.7	We're getting reports of a crime wave across the region.
0:14.6	I'm live outside the West Wallaby Street House of the Evil Inventor, Mr. Wallace.
0:20.7	Evil? Aor, Mr. Wallace. Evil?
0:21.6	A menaceant.
0:24.6	Who could possibly be behind all this?
0:46.2	Nick and Merlin, to be sitting here with the directors of a new Wallace and Gromit feature is just a dream.
0:51.1	I grew up with Wallace and Gromit and got to be at the world premiere at AFI Fest.
0:51.9	Oh, weird.
0:53.3	This is just a thrill. So thank you both for taking time to talk to me about the film.
0:56.7	I appreciate it.
0:57.6	Oh, pleasure.
0:59.6	Yeah.
1:00.1	Well, Nick, I want to start with you.
1:01.7	I want to start with how this feature began.
1:04.2	I'm sure you've felt the passion from fans hoping for another feature going all the way
1:09.7	back to Curse of the Wear Rabbit.
1:11.5	But I know just a few years ago, Peter Lord talked about how you possibly preferred the shorter
1:16.6	format for Walson Gromit, and perhaps that might have been a better fit for the characters.
1:21.4	When did you know you settled on an idea that was right for a feature?
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