Aardman Drops Shaun the Sheep Monster Parody Trailer
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- GKIDS released a new trailer for "Shaun the Sheep: The Beast From Mossy Bottom" on June 24, with the stop-motion film set for U.S. theaters on September 18.
- Steve Cox and Matthew Walker are co-directing the film, marking their feature directorial debuts after longtime careers as Aardman animators; Cox previously directed the "Shaun the Sheep: Flight Before Christmas" TV special.
- Mark Burton and Giles Pilbrow wrote the screenplay, with Burton having directed the original 2015 "Shaun the Sheep Movie."
- The film's logline sees Shaun turning mad scientist to fix a trashed pumpkin patch ahead of Halloween, with the Farmer missing and a wild beast roaming the woods of Mossingham.
- The "Shaun the Sheep" series has spanned seven seasons and 190 episodes from 2007 to 2025, winning five International Emmy Awards, with this film serving as the third movie spinoff after 2015's "Shaun the Sheep Movie" and 2019's "A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon."
- The film echoes Aardman's 2005 "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," a prior monster-movie parody from the same studio and creator Nick Park.
Why it matters: Aardman is returning to the monster-movie parody formula that powered 2005's 'Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,' now putting Shaun the Sheep in the lead and promoting two longtime animators to feature directors for the first time. With the franchise already spanning 190 episodes and two prior films since 2007, the studio is betting its most enduring property can carry a bigger creative swing.
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