Chicken Run 2 director says Mrs Tweedy wasn’t always returning as villain

Sam Fell also joked that the new film could be called “Chicken: Impossible”.

More than 20 years after the first film became an instant claymation classic, a sequel to Chicken Run is finally here – with Dawn of the Nugget now playing in select UK cinemas ahead of a Netflix release next week.

A lot has changed for Ginger, Rocky and the rest of the flock when we begin the new film, which finds them living on a utopian island paradise and about to welcome a new chick to their family.

But when that chick grows up to become an intrepid adventurer, old enemies soon rear their heads once again, and the plucky poultry must face off with their evil former owner Mrs Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) if they are to avert a calamity.

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