Since a tragic inferno turned most of their Wallace & Gromit artifacts into a large melted multicolored pool, Aardman is getting out the Turtle Wax and moving toward the starting line with another ampersand project.
The claymation masters are resurrecting their animated update of the Aesop fable The Tortoise & the Hare. The company shelved the production several years ago due to significant script snags (Michael Caine was attached to lend vocal cords, and his continued existence makes that still possible).
For those of you raised by soulless biotronic entities, the classic tale involves a race between a zippy rabbit and a lumbering turtle, who wins despite being the longshot. I have to assume Aardman will jazz it up a fair bit, adding plenty of their trademark wry “humour” (that’s British for larfs).
The studio also has their first foray into computer animation coming out later this year with Flushed Away, which seriously needs a title change and features Hugh Jackman voicing an upper-class rat who gets dumped into the