Why are there no Canadians in Chicken Runs multinational cast?
Lord: Well, our executive producer was Canadian. I don’t know; we never thought of that issue, I must say. But really, having said that the movie is The Great Escape with chickens, it’s not actually like The Great Escape at all, is it? Park: We might have got in trouble with Dreamworks’ lawyers, actually. Because we almost got in trouble for putting in a Scottish character. The lawyers told us we were on dodgy ground there because there was a Scottish character in The Great Escape and we might be seen as copying that. It’s strange. I mean, there’s a whole country full of Scottish people. I don’t think they have a copyright on it. Did you base any of the characters on Jeffrey Katzenberg? Park: No, we wanted to, but… Lord: Yeah, we should have, but no. Have people in England been complaining that the hero of the movie is an American rooster? Lord: In Britain every interviewer asks about that; in America nobody does. People here don’t say, “Why did you put Mel [Gibson] in?” They just sa
