The funny plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit are going to be seeing you in some new ways soon, or so says Aardman spokesman Arthur Sheriff this week. The good folks over at yahoo.com has this to add:
The filmmaking partnership of Aardman Animations Ltd and Hollywood’s DreamWorks Animation SKG may have ended on Tuesday but Nick Park, creator of the animated pals, is busy at the drawing board creating a Wallace and Gromit sequel. “Wallace and Gromit are alive and kicking,” Arthur Sheriff said on Wednesday. “There is a project on the table right now. “It could be television, it could be a feature film. That depends on how the storyline develops.” DreamWorks and Aardman ended their seven-year partnership on Tuesday, saying their “ambitions have moved apart.”
This is nice to hear, Wallace and Gromit are so cool with the old school claymation effects and I’ve always found the writing very witty. I was wondering if we’d be hearing from them again. I have to say that a television show would be my pick. I think they have enough life in them for a show. A film would be good but I have to wonder if it would be any more successful than the first, which, while turning a profit did not make as much as hoped.
It is sad that two such creative teams like DreamWorks and Aardman have spit up but creative chemistry is fickle, as are finances within the movie industry so it is never a shock when two companies split.
I’m just happy that the kids are ok in this divorce.
