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‘Wallace & Gromit’ Creator Nick Park on Bringing Back Feathers McGraw for ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’: ‘It Was Like a Lightning Strike’
The Wallace & Gromit creator discusses the return of the infamous stop-motion villain more than 30 years after 'The Wrong Trousers'
While any new project starring Nick Park ’s beloved inventor and his pet dog is cause for celebration, “Vengeance Most Fowl” also brings back Feathers McGraw, the would-be diamond thief and master of disguise penguin last seen being locked up at the end of 2003’s Oscar-winning classic “The Wrong Trousers” (and after a train chase scene considered one of the finest — animated or otherwise — in film history). For Park, who co-directed the latest Wallace & Gromit with Merlin Crossingham, bringing Feathers back was never something that he’d originally considered, despite an ongoing appreciation for the character that hasn’t diminished over the years. It was only in the writing process (Park co-wrote the story with regular Aardman scribe Mark Burton) when they needed “some darkness” in a film about garden gnomes going wrong (of course) that the idea hit.
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