It's been 31 years since everybody's favourite cheese loving inventor Wallace and his four-legged best pal Gromit sent felonious fake fowl Feathers McGraw to jail in Aardman's BAFTA- and Oscar-winning short film The Wrong Trousers. But in the beloved claymation studio's upcoming feature offering Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (the duo's first new outing since 2008's A Matter Of Loaf And Death), the baddest bird in cinema is back — and if the new teaser for the film's anything to go by, then Wallace had better watch his back. Check it out below:
A crime wave sweeping across the Lancashire region. Fingers pointing at "evil inventor" Wallace (Ben Whitehead). Gromit in mortal danger. "Who could possibly be behind this?" exasperatedly asks our feather-brained hero as a helmeted and net wielding Gromit rocks up at the local zoo. Well, if you hadn't guessed already, then the sight of ol' McGraw hammering away on an organ — his beady eyes beadier than ever as he sups on a mug branded with 'World's Best Boss' — will certainly give you a pretty solid idea. What's the betting the pernicious penguin has something to do with the smart gnome, Norbot, who we met in the last trailer? Hmm...
And if you need a reminder of the plot this time around, here's the official synopsis for you: "Vengeance Most Fowl sees Gromit’s growing concern as Wallace becomes over-dependent on his inventions – which proves justified when Wallace invents a ‘smart gnome’ that seems to develop an evil mind of its own. But who or what could be the cause? As events begin to spiral out of control, it’s up to Gromit to put aside his qualms and battle sinister forces, or Wallace may never be able to invent again!" Also among the cast this time out are Peter Kay, who's reprising his Curse Of The Were-Rabbit role as Chief Inspector Mackintosh, and newcomers Lauren Patel, Reece Shearsmith, Diane Morgan, Adjoa Andoh, and Lenny Henry.
Will Wallace's innocence be proven before it's too late? Will Feathers McGraw get put away once and for all? And if McGraw is 'World's Best Boss', then just who exactly is he the world's best boss of? We'll find out the answers to those questions and more when Merlin Crossingham and Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl hits Netflix on 3 January. Cracking stuff!