Showbiz | Celebrity News I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice . Feathers McGraw will return to play a central role in the Wallace And Gromit film series after three decades.
The evil penguin, who was first seen in 1993’s Bafta and Oscar-winning short The Wrong Trousers, will return to get revenge on inventor Wallace and his trusty and loyal beagle Gromit in the BBC’s Vengeance Most Fowl. McGraw was arrested and sent to a zoo in the original film following him renting a room by disguising himself as a chicken with a red glove on his head, and subsequently revealing his true nature. He appeared briefly in the series Cracking Contraptions in a fictional TV show When Penguins Turn and in the game Wallace & Gromit In Project Zoo.
A teaser, released on Thursday, for Vengeance Most Fowl shows the dastardly penguin’s fish key chain and keys, comb, tape measure and glove being put in a prison tray before he enters a cell while a guard looks on before cracking his neck. It had previously been revealed that the film will see Wallace develop a “smart gnome” that seems to have a mind of its own. Wallace And Gromit creator and director of the new 70-minutes film, Nick Park, said: “I’d had the idea of a film about garden gnomes turning bad for more than a decade, but I could never work out what made them bad.
“It occurred to me that the single most asked question I get when I meet fans is, will the penguin .
