Lock up your vegetables!

The Guardian interviews Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park about their long-awaited feature film debut, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (which opens October 7).

"At first it was called Wallace & Gromit and the Veggieburglars, and it was about these rabbits who keep invading Wallace and Gromit's vegetable plot, and then we started to develop that into an idea of a great rabbit beast who comes to town. A were-rabbit as opposed to a werewolf, because it seemed to fit the Wallace and Gromit world." Park and [writer Bob] Baker were inspired by the venerable cycle of Universal studio horror movies. "They're all filled with blood and guts and we thought that that could really suit Wallace and Gromit's world because it's absurd. It's about people locking up their vegetables rather than their children."

In very vaguely related news, the New York Times has a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the death of hand-drawn animation at Disney. And in very vaguely related news to that, the L.A. Times profiles Skip Brittenham, arguably the most powerful entertainment attorney in Hollywood.