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Maisie Williams joins the cast of Aardman’s Ear­ly Man

17 Jan 2017

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Two cartoon cavemen characters in a forest setting, one wielding a large rock and the other holding a clapper board.
Two cartoon cavemen characters in a forest setting, one wielding a large rock and the other holding a clapper board.
The Game of Thrones star will voice a char­ac­ter in Nick Park’s upcom­ing clay­ma­tion caper.

It feels like for­ev­er since we were last treat­ed to a film from clay­ma­tion whizz’s Aard­man. Thank­ful­ly, the Bris­tol-based stu­dio are return­ing to the film­mak­ing fold with Ear­ly Man, a cave­man com­e­dy star­ring the vocal tal­ents of Eddie Red­mayne, Tom Hid­dle­ston and now Maisie Williams, who con­firmed the news via her Twit­ter page.

Very excited to be a part of @earlymanmovie along with Eddie Redmayne and, of course, the hugely talented Nick Park pic.twitter.com/jmgN53ra6V — Maisie Williams (@Maisie_Williams) January 17, 2017

Even more excit­ing­ly, it’s being direct­ed by Wal­lace and Gromit cre­ator Nick Park, whose last fea­ture film was 2005’s The Curse of the Were-Rab­bit. Set in pre­his­toric times, Ear­ly Man fol­lows the adven­tures of a plucky cave­man (Red­mayne) who must unite his tribe in order to defeat a pow­er­ful ene­my. Williams will play Goona, a feisty rebel who befriends our hero.

Although the film isn’t due out until 2018, Aard­man announced that pro­duc­tion was under­way care of a typ­i­cal­ly charm­ing piece of pro­mo (see below) fea­tur­ing two of the film’s stars.

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