“That’s an underlying theme of happiness,” Fell says. “What is your happy ending?” For Ginger, the chicken who led the poultry farm jailbreak that gave the original “Chicken Run” film its name, Fell says that her happy ending is not actually the hyper-secure world of the sanctuary. “Fun Land Farms is the dark side of the idea. And then in the long run, it turns out that that’s not Ginger’s happy ending at the beginning,” he explains. “She might think it is, but in the end, actually […] her happy place is to be engaging with the outside world, with her family by her side, and with Molly by her side.”
Hilariously, Fell calls the sanctuary at the film’s beginning “chicken Wakanda,” a “perfect place” for Ginger, her mate Rocky (Zachary Levi), and their child Molly (Bella Ramsey) to live. While the outside world turns out to be pretty much as scary as Ginger remembered it being — Fell calls Fun Land Farms “a parallel and a kind of shadow side” version of the sanctuary — Ginger’s also not made to be too settled and safe. “She’s an activist, to be honest, Ginger. She’s not really the sort of person that’s going to retire quietly,” he says.