Dir: Nick Park
United Kingdom, 2008, 29’
Clay and puppets
Prod: Aardman Animations
Wallace and Gromit’s new bakery business faces danger when a mysterious killer starts targeting all the bakers in town.
Nick Park
Nick Park is a four-time Academy Award® winner: three in the category of Best Animated Short Film (“Creature Comforts”, “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave”), and more recently one in the category of Best Animated Feature Film for “The Curse of The Were-Rabbit”. All four films were created and produced at Aardman, where Nick is a co-director with founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton.
“A Matter of Loaf and Death” is Wallace and Gromit’s latest adventure and was broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 2008 to a record beating 14.25 million viewers. In 1997, Nick was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).
Having done two feature films virtually back to back, it was very refreshing for me and the crew to return to the 30-minute format. I was much more in control and was able to make it in a much shorter time. It was good to write with Bob Baker again (Bob co-wrote both “The Wrong Trousers” and “A Close Shave”).
I had been wondering for some time who might voice Wallace’s love interest. When I heard Sally Lindsay being interviewed on the radio, I knew she was the Piella I had been looking for! It was refreshing not to have the endless reams of notes you get when making a feature film, the BBC only sent one note on the whole film.
It’s interesting how times have changed, the first “Wallace & Gromit” took seven years to make, this one took seven months!
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