IndieWire traveled to Aardman in Bristol, England, and learned about Norbot, the return of Feathers, the most eye-catching set, and the role of AI.

In their first big film outing since 2008’s A Matter of Loaf and Death, the iconic duo from Aardman Animations return for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Gromit becomes concerned that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions, and his fears are proven right when Wallace’s new “Smart Gnome” Norbot seems to develop a mind of its own.

The upcoming stop-motion animated movie marks about 18 years since the franchise's last full-length film, The Curse of Were-Rabbit, released in 2005. The most recent short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, premiered in 2008. Vengeance Most Fowl features the outlaw Feathers McGraw, who first appeared in The Wrong Trousers (1993).

Vengeance Most Fowl, as the title playfully suggests, sees the return of Feathers McGraw, the penguin criminal from The Wrong Trousers who used the epo