‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Netflix: The Ankler and Letterboxd Audience First FYC Screening Series

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl draws its inspiration from Hollywood classics — Cape Fear, Hitchcock’s oeuvre and The Italian Job, to name a few. But don’t compare Wallace & Gromit to those weighty works. The one thing co-director Nick Park never said about an idea for the film? “Too silly.” In conversation with Katey Rich (author of The Ankler’s Prestige Junkie), Park and co-director Merlin Crossingham delve into the challenges and joys of crafting the latest Oscar-nominated title in the claymation comedy franchise from the U.K.’s Aardman Animations. The stop-motion production, which filmed for 15 months, encompassed a studio bigger than a football field, with 45 stages, 35 animators and 260 crew members. “If the whole crew got a minute and a half done in a week, we were really on target,” Crossingham says, adding that he and Park are more than happy taking it frame by frame. “I can’t imagine making films any other way.” You can see Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl on Netflix.