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The eccentric inventor Wallace and his faithful beagle, Gromit, are back again for one of their wild stop-motion adventures. Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will be the sixth Wallace and Gromit film, the first since 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death, and their second feature-length film following the Oscar-winning The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in 2005. Vengeance Most Fowl was announced back in 2022 and we finally have our first trailer.
“Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified when Wallace invents a ‘smart gnome’ that seems to develop an evil mind of its own,” the film’s official synopsis reads. “When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master…or Wallace may never be able to invent again!” Check out the duo’s latest hijinks and a return of an old adversary.
For the first time, Ben Whitehead will voice Wallace for a complete feature, following the death of original actor Peter Sallis in 2017. Whitehead had previously been a stand-in for Sallis in certain scenes in A Matter of Loaf and Death but also took on the role for video games and commercials since 2008.
Actor and magician Reece Shearwood (Saltburn, Venom: Let There Be Carnage) will voice Norbot, the robotic gnome who will give Wallace and Gromit their biggest challenge yet.
The movie’s announcement coincides with the news that employee-owned Aardman Animations just went through a round of layoffs. Cartoon Brew reported that around 15% of its core staff, which was 20 of its approximately 130 non-freelance employees, were recently let go. The layoffs seemed to focus largely on management as the majority of Aardman’s artists are project-specific freelancers, not part of the actual staff.
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl will debut worldwide on the closing day of the AFI Fest with the release on December 25, 2024, on Netflix, except for the UK, where it will debut first on the BBC before also coming to Netflix in 2025.
