I've created this forum for fans to create and express their ideas for future Wallace and Gromit adventures. Feel free to let your imaginations fly.
I've included one of my story ideas for a new short film (in the vein of "A Grand Day Out").


What if...
Wallace invented a time machine and went back to the prehistoric age and encountered dinosaurs? Gromit sure would love those big dino bones (very tasty for a dog, I'm sure) and Wallace might discover his caveman ancestors (who probably aren't that different in either their appearance or lack of logical ideation).

Possible title:
"Wallace in Gromit in Out of Time"

Welcome, Lucky Ducky 13!

What a cracking idea for a forum!

Well, I have dusted off a copy of " & and The Lost Slipper" by Tristan Davies and Nick Newman (published by Hodder & Stoughton 1997) and - sorry to disappoint you, petal - the time machine thing has already been covered but, as yet, not filmed.

Lovely try, though! Keep your thinking cap on and don't be discouraged.

Sock Eye Salmon

Maybe, but reading in the the papers that the guy that plays wallace is in his 90's sad to say, so without peter sallis, no wallace

what if
feathers breaks out of jail, kidnappes gromit,frames wallace for murdering gromit(puts a fake dummy of gromit dead in wallace`s house)and the only person who can save them is hutch!

title:wallace and gromit in.....a frame to remember!

a remake of a grand day out

what do you mean a remake of a grand day out?

well, wallace and gromit look different compared to the ones to follow, if you watch youll sometimes notice that the arms or facial parts get dirty, aswell as special effects, but then again, it was 1989. not much recources then

So, thespazicat, you would like to re-sculpt the Statue of Liberty? Turn the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, into a branch of Tesco? Take a hammer and chisel to Uluru/Ayre's Rock and make it look like a giant ginger cake? Put graffiti all over the White Cliffs of Dover?

I'm talking about ICONS here, friend! If they ain't broke, don't fix 'em! The same goes for "A Grand Day Out" - the dirt STAYS and so do the finger prints. Remakes are SOOOOOOO evident of a pure lack of style and imagination!

Peter Sallis might be into his fighting fit, healthy late 80's - old does not mean he is a shroud-shirker or a coffin-dodger! By 'eck!

Leave well alone! The 'home made' feel is full of soul and is GOOD!

Yours
Sock Eye Salmon

just an idea though.

No problem, thespazicat!

Josephine, a remake of something can also be good. It can be thought as a tribute to the original creator.

Spazicat has a point. With new technology and talent that stopmotion is thriving with now can really bring forward the film. Its most likely not possible but a homage to Park, via a new film by others is not bad at all!

Whats wrong with a tribute as long as its stopmotionanimation! It dosen't have to be a replacement, just an example of how much this art has come forward.

I personally wouldn't want to hear about a re-make of the film, but if there was, it wouldn't be a crisis. Also it shouldn't be made for a good while after W&G films have been stopped. Just an opinion, not asking for an argument.

Nofby - some - only SOME - remakes have been good, some fall flat.

Barry Norman, the Radio Times film critic, came up with a great idea lately. To paraphrase him - How about giving an obscure film dud the remake treatment with much needed, well thought out improvements? Recycling ideas - creative people do it all the time - even the Almighty Aards might put an idea on the back boiler and fish it out at a later date to see if it will work better.

Just a thought!

Sock Eye Salmon

Personally, I find most remakes to be poor in artistic quality. I see no reason to capitalize on the success of a genuine work of art and ruin it in the process.
Besides, I like the more rough quality of the animation in "A Grand Day Out". It shows the progressive talents of the animators that each new film looks better than the previous one.

Thats your opinion and I have seen re-makes that haven't

"capitalized on the success of a genuine work of art and ruin it in the process."

Its all depends on the material.

Thanks for the update Josephine.

Another idea I had for a W&G short involved Wallace & Gromit going on a holiday to Tibet and discovering the Yeti who (don't ask why) is a tennis player. Now there's an original idea and it kind of fits the eccentric style of storytelling that Aardman and Nick Park seem to employ in their films.

I don't, however, have any good ideas for titles. Feel free to come up with some of your own.

No there have been a few remakes that were as good or even on occasion better than the originals. The 1970's remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a good example. However an example of a bad remake would be Tim Burton's "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory". I love Johnny Depp's work as an actor, but that role belongs to Gene Wilder.

Yeah i have to agree, i like the older one better then the new one.

I liked the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair" with Pierce Brosnan. I thought that was well done.

(there's some excellent discussions on this thread! it's good to having differing ideas and opinions tossed about.)

the 80's horror movie, THE THING, was actually a remake of a 40's movie, AND the remake was 10000000000000 times better.

I don't know about 10000000000000 times better but yes, it was an improvement. The same could be said of The Fly.

Anyone else with ideas for future W&G adventures?

They would work as house builders where they build houses with lots of their inventions in them and it could all go wrong with a client.

Yes, Wallace could accidentally launch a house into orbit and then be forced to explore outer space. Gromit would look great in a space suit. And maybe aliens could come into the story or the cooker from "A Grand Day Out".

Oh, no. Have we run out of ideas?

How about a remake of "The Blob". Now THERE'S an old B movie! Only in the Wallace and Gromit remake, the blob is formed from a gunked up fleecing machine, reanimated by . He doesn't realize the blob is growing in his machine, and a very woolie giant blob emerges from his contraption keen on taking over the world!

OK....forget it. That's really lame, but I'll post it anyhow.

lol...haven't seen the original Blob movie, but i think you may be on to something there fish. & are hired to invent a machine that will stop the woolie blob. maybe a giant knitting machine that knits up all the blob's wool until there's nothing left but a harmless blobette.

Hi, Fish! Cracking idea for a remake of The Blob - especially when it involves the sinister ... tee hee!

For you who don't know what the hecky-peckingtons we are talking about - just imagine a dangerous, ever growing Turkish Delight or strawberry jelly that wobbles/gobbles up everything in its path and grows bigger and bigger as it does!

It's a real hoot, squigly! Watch out for it on cable or satellite. I'd like to see a harmless blobette!

The Blob song is quite catchy, too!

(If any of you has seen "Grease", the drive-in movie bit, there is a movie trailer that features...The Blob).

I feel another plug for a certain website coming along...begins with You and ends with T -


Yours Blob-fully
Sock Eye Salmon

Uck, I hate slimy gelatinous creatures (especially slugs).

So, an oversized Turkish Delight is out of the question, then?

Turkish Delight as a blob starter is a brilliant idea, Josephine! And there would be a lovely symbolical and somewhat theological tie in to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - since Turkish Delight is part of what the White Witch used to seduce Edmund....

Yes, Fish! For our heroes, W&G, it will have to be cheese flavoured Turkish Delight...

Speaking of wardrobes, old friend - wasn't locked up in his knotty pine wardrobe in The Wrong Trousers??? Eeeh, there's a story there...

I think we're on to something!

...And maybe Wallace could invent a giant robotic mouth (like an enormous pair of mechanical dentures) to eat the monstrous Turkish Delight.

Crackin' good idea, Lucky Ducky 13! That sounds like something Wallace would invent!

What if...

Gromit had a girlfriend and stopped being friends with wallace?

Interesting... but I think Gromit's ever-faithful nature would prevent him from abandoning Wallace, who so clearly needs Gromit's superior intelligence in order to stay out of trouble.

Lol but do you think its good?

It has potential. Maybe if Gromit's girlfriend was the villain and a natural seductress (perhaps a wolf dressed as a dalmatian or something).
Then Wallace would have to be the hero for a change.

Maby gromit could find out wallace is an alien!!!

You know that occurred to me. But if Wallace is an alien then so are all of Aardman's delightfully bent characters.

The real question is: Is Gromit an alien?
How many dogs can drive a car, a plane, a motorcycle, or knit a tea cozy?

its a animation not real , anything goes in animation

I was posing an ironic question. Of course I know that it's animation. And bloody brilliant animation at that!

Okay, so what happens is this, see Wallace gets stuffed into the wardrobe, and for some reason he's tied up, and he stumbles backwards into the snow! Aah! His ropes catch on a protruding root, and he manages to cut through them by moving his arms backwards and forwards. He stood and looked around him.
He was in a snowy forest, with tall pines, their needles brushing the ground and reaching the sky in one fluid ark. The thing that struck him about the forest was that there were no birds. Maybe they were hibernating. Wallace wasn't sure if birds hibernated or not, but bears did, he knew.
First he thought he would go back into the wardrobe, but then he realised that yesterday there had not been a forest in his wardrobe, and, in all likelyhood, there would not be one tomorrow. Marking the location of the wardrobe in his mind, he stepped cautiously through the needles of the pines. He emerged into a small clearing, and, in the centre of it - and completely unexpected - was a lamp post. Perhaps he was closer to civilisation than he had thought.
There was a rustle to his right, and he span around. "Ah- hallo?"
A bare-chested young man fell from behind a pine, and paper-wrapped parcels spilled across the ground. He jumped to his feet, and there was a look almost of fear upon his face. "Oh, I am sorry," said Wallace, and he bent to help the man gather the parcels. Simultaneously, they reached for the same parcel, and their hands met. It was at this point that Wallace saw that the man had furry legs and cloven hooves.
"Tell me," said the man - although, actually, he was not a man, but a faun, and his name was Mr Tumnus. "Are you a son of Adam?"
"No, my dad's name is Robert," replied Wallace, confused. (http://www.wallaceandgromit.com/creations/view/127)
"Oh, my mistake," said Mr Tumnus, in obvious relief, and he hurried away.
Wallace shook his head, and set off back to the wardrobe. He tripped over the very root he had used to cut his rope, and the rope, still lying there, twisted around his ankle. He fell forward and rolled over and over, the rope wrapping around him. He thudded into the door of the wardrobe, and back where he started.

Thanks for stopping by, PoisonIvy. It's always nice to see new names popping up in these discussions.
I love your idea, but I don't know that the folks at Disney are likely to hand over the rights to one of their major franchises. Great idea, though!
Keep your brain in overdrive and feel free to share any more ideas you might have.

eh? Wow. You have REALLY been working hard, PoisonIvy. I wish Disney would hand over their rights though. The same kind of idea I had in mind. Has anyone seen the trailer for Eagle Eye (see here: http://www.eagleeyemovie.com/). Imagine a W&G film of that!

i don't think it would work out very well a Wallace and gromit version of that.

I know that Disney have the rights but couldn't you say that you were inspired by C.S. Lewis's story?
Any way great idea!

Heh I made it up as I went along. I love writing and although I've never completed one am working on several novels. (I can't decide which one to go with. It's a common problem)

- PoisonIvy

maybe finish each of them and send them to someone, you never know!

Hi, PoisonIvy.
I can completely relate. I also do a bit of writing and I have about a dozen stories in various stages, all of them uncompleted. I tend to over explain myself and then I become bored, impatient, and lose interest in my own work. Or I try to compensate and end up oversimplifying.
Either way the actual writing is never as easy the conceptualization.
Don't give up!