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Wallace and Gromit creator says fire won't halt work |
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Written by googirama
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Monday, 10 October 2005 |
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I was really sad to learn that we almost lost the original Wallace and Gromit clay models in a fire yesterday!
CORRECTION - Everything except the new models were lost (sad)
OSLO
(Reuters) - A fire that destroyed hundreds of Wallace and Gromit models
will not stop new films being made of the plasticine pals, creator Nick
Park told Reuters on Tuesday. The fire ripped through a warehouse and
destroyed items from Park's Oscar-winning short film series on Monday,
the day after the first feature length film on intrepid inventor
Wallace and his faithful dog Gromit shot to number one at the North
American box office,
"We have to look forward and keep filming
new films and not get stuck in the past," Park said during a visit to
the Norwegian capital to promote the new film 'Wallace and Gromit: The
Curse of the Were-Rabbit'. "I am always thinking up new Wallace and
Gromit ideas and I always want to keep doing them," he said.
The sets from the new film were not damaged as they had been in an exhibition and not in the warehouse, he said.
Park
learnt of the fire when he rang the production house Aardman Animations
to find out how the film had coped it its first week in North America.
The film sees Wallace and Gromit use a complex vacuum system to protect
vegetables from a rabbit problem in their village. He also created the
2000 animation film 'Chicken Run'. "There was great news that it had
risen to number one but at the same time the awful news that all the
history, all the archives, sets and models had been lost in the fire,"
Park said.
He has won three Oscars for best animated short film,
'Creature Comforts' in 1990 and the Wallace and Gromit short films 'The
Wrong Trousers' in 1993 and 'A Close Shave' in 1995.
Fire
fighters battled flames 100 feet high (30.5 metres) on Monday morning
at the warehouse storing memorabilia from all three films in Bristol,
south-west England, but could not stop the roof collapsing.
Source: Reuters
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