Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023 Netflix movie, music by Harry Gregson-Williams)

[Edmilson 7,468]

The movie will be released on Netflix on December 15, 2023.

 

Synopsis:

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“Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world,” reads the synopsis. “When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. For Ginger and her team, even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk – this time, they’re breaking in!”

 

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1296094-chicken-run-2-release-date-netflix

 

HGW is currently recording his score in London:

 

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2023/06/12/harry-gregson-williams-scoring-aardmans-chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget/

[Smeltington 1,441]

I'm glad they didn't call it Rise of the Nugget.

[Bellosh 3,419]

Dawn of the Nugget ---- expect to see that in the 'Describe Your Last Toilet visit with a movie title!' soon

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Glad HGW is back to score! Should be good. 

[Brónach 1,302]

Movies that nobody wants part 3673

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

 

[Trope 527]

I'm just excited that we're getting another animated score by Harry! I can't believe a composer of his calibre is writing music for projects like "Meg 2: The Trench" or "Retribution" (some cheapo Liam Neeson film I didn't know existed until yesterday).

 

His last animated film "Early Man" (also from Aardman and co-written with Tom Howe) was one of my favourite scores from 2018, featuring a handful of solid themes, vibrant orchestrations, and a good balance between silliness and some genuinely heartwarming moments. Well worth a listen!

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

One of the main reasons I want Shrek 5 is so that Harry can write another score there.

 

His score for 4 is in my opinion the best and is just so much fun!

 

Early Man was a joy as well

[Mr. Who 919]

18 hours ago, Trope said:

I'm just excited that we're getting another animated score by Harry! I can't believe a composer of his calibre is writing music for projects like "Meg 2: The Trench" or "Retribution" (some cheapo Liam Neeson film I didn't know existed until yesterday).

 

His last animated film "Early Man" (also from Aardman and co-written with Tom Howe) was one of my favourite scores from 2018, featuring a handful of solid themes, vibrant orchestrations, and a good balance between silliness and some genuinely heartwarming moments. Well worth a listen!

Yeah HGW is great and it’s a shame that he is doing these types of projects these days. I don’t understand it, given his filmography.

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

Besidez Chicken Run we're also getting another orchestral work by Gregson-Williams this year.

 

The Gilded Age Season 2 in collaboration with his brother Rupert. First season was great, so I'm also looking forward to that

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

This looks awesome. I'm very much looking forward to this. Even more then I thought I would. But this looks really great. That tease at the end is very cool.

 

 

[Alex 2,835]

Spoiler

Somehow Mrs Tweedy returned

 

[mstrox 6,651]

I saw the original in theaters twenty-three years ago, so the reveal doesn’t mean much to me here - but we’ll watch the original with our kid sometime before we do the sequel.

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

The original is a brilliant, brilliant film that lives because the script, voice actors, and score all perfectly complement the strengths and weaknesses of claymation. It's from the time when special effects could still be admired for how they did stuff (before you could basically do everything with CGI and it became pointless to figure out "how" they did it - not a bad thing for what effects are actually *meant* to achieve, but there was an exciting meta dimension to film effects at the end of the 20th century that I do miss). I'm a big fan of the score, too, and while I have no idea how much of it is Powell and how much HGW, I've never heard another HGW score that had me excited.

 

All of that means that a modern day, presumably semi-CGI sequel, is unlikely to be successful. But this actually doesn't look half bad!

[Fargo 297]

So disappointed they changed the voice actors 

[Yavar Moradi 2,599]

8 minutes ago, Fargo said:

So disappointed they changed the voice actors 

Only some of them. But yeah… apart from Mel Gibson, I wonder why they would?

 

Yavar

[Alex 2,835]

3 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:

Only some of them. But yeah… apart from Mel Gibson, I wonder why they would?

 

Yavar

One theory I’ve read is certain members of the original cast had a sequel clause in their contract which meant they were due a significant pay rise. Could be a cost-cutting thing.

[PrayodiBA 517]

 I just realized the movie release date is Dec 15, presumably the soundtrack release date is the same.

 

Then on that day, we will have a battle of the century between HGW’s score and John Powell’s highly anticipated score of Migration (the soundtrack will be released one week before the movie release date on Dec 22)

 

Funny that apart they used to be partner,

both soundtrack revolve around poultry! And both will probably be heavily kazoos-induced! 😱🔥🔥

 

 

[Mr. Who 919]

11 hours ago, PrayodiBA said:

 I just realized the movie release date is Dec 15, presumably the soundtrack release date is the same.

 

Then on that day, we will have a battle of the century between HGW’s score and John Powell’s highly anticipated score of Migration (the soundtrack will be released one week before the movie release date on Dec 22)

 

Funny that apart they used to be partner,

both soundtrack revolve around poultry! And both will probably be heavily kazoos-induced! 😱🔥🔥

 

 

Really looking forward to both of these! The new Barbieheimer is ChickenMigrationRun!

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

MigrationNugget

[LSH 969]

NuggetMigration

[FunnyML 82]

Chicken Run 2 would be a perfect opportunity to expand the score for the first movie. Here is an unreleased track:

 

[Jurassic Shark 12,082]

On 05/09/2023 at 9:11 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

I've never heard another HGW score that had me excited.

 

Hellooo-ooo, Sinbad called.

[Marian Schedenig 8,207]

11 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Hellooo-ooo, Sinbad called.

 

Never been impressed by the bits I've heard.

[Jurassic Shark 12,082]

You better listen to the good bits then.

[Alex 2,835]

On 05/09/2023 at 4:11 PM, Marian Schedenig said:

I'm a big fan of the score, too, and while I have no idea how much of it is Powell and how much HGW, I've never heard another HGW score that had me excited.

 

This was posted in the John Powell thread. Seems that Chicken Run was mostly JP.

 

 

[mstrox 6,651]

I would have suspected as much from the sound of it - the themes fit pretty neatly in Powell’s oeuvre from the time, and seem very unlike any of HGW’s solo stuff.  

[Alex 2,835]

It will be interesting if HGW goes in his own direction now that he has full control or if he relies a lot on the original material. Maybe will get a lot of the Powell stuff, but in HGW´s style.

[Faleel 5,359]

 

[TSMefford 1,509]

Looks fun!

[Mr. Who 919]

I'm really exited for the score by HGW! It's a shame that he didn't do Equalizer 3 and Napoleon but at least we have this one to look forward to! If Zimmer doesn't do Gladiator 2 (fingers crossed), then I hope HGW gets the gig as his collaborations with Ridley are always interesting.

[leeallen01 2,136]

Adore the original film and by god the score is great. Such charming fun. Hope this new one can capture some of that magic.

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

There is a moment in the trailer which sounds like it could be from the score (if so, it sounds terrific!)

 

From 0:41 to 0:56.

 

It also could just be some trailerorchestral stuff but I'm holding out hope

[Tallguy 3,401]

 

It's not like I'm a Chicken Run purist. But when you can't even get Nick and Fetcher to come back, why are you bothering?

[JTN 2,036]

11 hours ago, Mr. Who said:

If Zimmer doesn't do Gladiator 2 (fingers crossed)

Woah! Why wouldn't Zimmer do GLADIATOR 2?? It's one of his and Lisa Gerrard's best scores, and it was a huge success. Scott would be a fool not to ask them to do G2. Other than scheduling conflicts I don't see any reason why Hans and Lisa wouldn't and shouldn't return. 

 

And it's a damn shame Powell didn't come back for Chicken Run 2. 

[mstrox 6,651]

Ridley Scott seems like the kind of director who would pick a composer he wants to work on the score with today, and not based on the legacy of previous movies in a series.

[Stark 316]

13 hours ago, JTW said:

Woah! Why wouldn't Zimmer do GLADIATOR 2?? It's one of his and Lisa Gerrard's best scores, and it was a huge success. Scott would be a fool not to ask them to do G2. Other than scheduling conflicts I don't see any reason why Hans and Lisa wouldn't and shouldn't return. 

 

And it's a damn shame Powell didn't come back for Chicken Run 2. 

Zimmer hasn’t worked with Ridley since Matchstick Men, and their Kingdom of Heaven colab fell apart 1 cue in… I think they just stopped enjoying working together.

[JTN 2,036]

11 hours ago, mstrox said:

Ridley Scott seems like the kind of director who would pick a composer he wants to work on the score with today, and not based on the legacy of previous movies in a series.

But he hasn’t returned as a director to any of his classic films (alas he couldn’t hire Jerry Goldsmith when making PROMETHEUS).

 

GLADIATOR became one of his greatest successes, earning him a Best Picture Oscar. Why wouldn’t he want to work again with the composer who wrote the score to that film, who he’s since worked together on Blade Runner 2049, who’s a 2-time Oscar winner and the most popular film composer? 
 

2 hours ago, Stark said:

I think they just stopped enjoying working together.

 

 I don’t think so. They didn’t seem to have any problem working together on BD 2049, even if Scott was only producer. Let’s see what happens, but I wouldn’t close them working together out just yet. GLADIATOR in a sense is just as much Zimmer’s baby as it is Scott’s.

[HunterTech 994]

3 hours ago, JTW said:

I don’t think so. They didn’t seem to have any problem working together on BD 2049, even if Scott was only producer. Let’s see what happens, but I wouldn’t close them working together out just yet. GLADIATOR in a sense is just as much Zimmer’s baby as it is Scott’s.

 

Well, with how much Scott has continued to complain about aspects of 2049 in the years since its release, that heavily suggests to me that his involvement wasn't quite that high (especially if he had to step away from the director's chair to do Alien Covenant in the first place). The most that's been said about him contributing to the movie is uncredited involvement with the script, which still could be far away from the production itself these days. Otherwise, everything points to Villeneuve making the shot to hire and work with HZ (even if I suspect it likely was a WB mandate)

 

Given how infamous the treatment of the music for Alien and Legend is (plus the way the score for the original BR was assembled in-film), it is far more reasonable to assume that Ridley just tends to get way too picky about the music in his movies. We already have reports about Napoleon diminishing the original score in some manner, so I figure that with KoH not going great that HZ just didn't want to waste his time with someone who hadn't changed one bit since he initially worked with him on Black Rain (whose climactic track was utterly torn to shreds in the final edit).

 

Having just said that, despite what happened on Alien, Scott has been pretty keen on allowing quotes of the original Goldsmith theme that pretty much got buried in the final edit of the original film. So if he's fairly well aware of how crucial that musical DNA was for those movies, then he definitely would want to maintain the sound of the previous Gladiator film in some form. I just don't think that'll happen by bringing back HZ for the sequel, since he could easily get someone else to just quote it when he feels like it.

 

And yet Zimmer did decide to have a cameo in a Lego fan thing someone did, so perhaps I could be surprised in this situation.

[mstrox 6,651]

Maybe he’ll just go directly to Holst this time!

[Mr. Who 919]

Man that holst joke is so old! In the same vein, Chris Colombus should go to Tchaikovsky, Peter Jackson should go to Bruckner… the list is so long…🤣

[Edmilson 7,468]

8 minutes ago, Mr. Who said:

Man that holst joke is so old! In the same vein, Chris Colombus should go to Tchaikovsky, Peter Jackson should go to Bruckner… the list is so long…🤣

And James Cameron should go to Enya for his epic about the sinking of a boat 

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

Interview with HGW. Some really cool stuff about reprising themes, the instruments used.

 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget-composer-harry-gregson-williams-interview-1235705497/

 

Oh and he also mentioned he's not doing the new Wallace & Gromit and that he very much feels that Julian Nott is the guy for that.

[LSH 969]

Very much looking forward to this.

[Edmilson 7,468]

I dunno, I find current day HGW much less entertaining than early 2000s HGW. But I hope it's as fun as the first CR (and that I don't miss Powell all that much when listening to the sequel).

[PrayodiBA 517]

Is the music in this BTS clip from the actual score?

The sound does belong to Chicken Run’s world, especially the one that starts at seconds 9.

But it also sounds too old-school/british it becomes borderline stock music.

 

But if that music is truly from the movie, then we’re going to have a neck and neck result from Battle of The Birds between this and Powell’s Migration.

(Edit = the music that starts at 9:35 is certainly from the movie)

[Richard Penna 3,694]

1 hour ago, PrayodiBA said:

But it also sounds too old-school/british it becomes borderline stock music.

 

Correct  Several pieces later on are from different libraries, so only the music in the film clips is HGW.

 

 

 

[PrayodiBA 517]

5 hours ago, Richard Penna said:

 

Correct  Several pieces later on are from different libraries, so only the music in the film clips is HGW.

 

 

 

Thank you for clarifying and got the time to find this!

Pity, that tune has that kind of Powell-ism fits to Chicken Run

[JNHFan2000 2,966]

A single will be released tomorrow!

 

It's nostly reprises of themes, but it's so good to hear them again

 

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget-original-motion/1718798046

 

[Dr. Know 326]

I can’t listen to this. Does it include the “Great Escape”-like march?