Gillian Anderson and Richard E Grant will star in Aardman’s first collaboration with Netflix.
The actors will provide voices for animated musical Robin Robin, which tells the story of a robin who is adopted by a family of mice after its egg rolls into a rubbish dump.
The Crown star Anderson will play Cat, the film’s villain, while Grant will voice Robin’s mentor Magpie. Both actors will sing in the roles, The Guardian reports.
Four Lions actor Adeel Akhtar and Bronte Carmichael will also star in the stop-motion film, which is scheduled to be released at Christmastime in 2021.
Robin Robin marks British animation studio Aardman’s first project for Netflix following its lengthy partnership with the BBC on the Wallace and Gromit films, as well as spin-off series Shaun the Sheep.
In June, it was announced that Netflix would be teaming up with Aardman to produce a sequel to the 2000 animated film Chicken Run.
Netflix tweeted “POULTRY NEWS: Exactly 20 years to the day since the original was released, we can confirm there will be a Chicken Run sequel coming to Netflix!! Eggsellent.”
The follow-up to the original film, which starred Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha as imprisoned chickens trying to escape a farm, is set to begin production next year.
However, Absolutely Fabulous star Sawalha claimed that she was ‘unfairly dismissed’ from the sequel as her voice was “too old”. It is not known whether Gibson will return to the franchise.
