WMG / Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

There are no chickens in the new farm.

• Basically Mrs. Tweedy made the farm look like she has tons of chickens so she could make the chickens she lost sneak in so she could lock them in as revenge and to get free chickens.
  • Or at the very least this is a plan when the chickens go deep enough into the farm.
    • Jossed. There's already a tons of chickens in the factory/farm.

The chickens we see in the new farm are brainwashed.

• This works in one of two ways
  • 1. The chickens in the new farm are placed in a sort of Lotus-Eater Machine that makes them think they are living in a utopia. (Possibly a reference to electronics in are modern times contracting are youth and making humans weak and lazy)
    • Confirmed.
  • 2. The chickens are placed in small cages that give them no room to move and are led to believe the only thing they can do is eat and die. (This is more of a reference to how cruel some chicken farm are to there chickens)
• All of which are plot points about how the chickens in the farm loose hope until Ginger helps them find the strength to stand up to there captures and escape.

How did Mrs. Tweedy become rich?

• In the previous film the farm was on its last legs and Mrs. Tweedy invested the last of her money on the pie machine, which raises the question of how she's so wealthy now. Some possible explanations:
  • 1. She sued the manufacturer of the pie machine, claiming it was faulty, and won.
  • 2. Mr. Tweedy died and she collected the life insurance.
  • 3. A rich relative left her money in their will.
  • 4. She won the lottery.
  • It's possible that she could've started working at this new place after she recovered from everything that happened during the climax of the first film, and it paid her well. For all we know, she might have started with a smaller, more insignificant role in the farm/factory and worked her way up to the top (or impressed the owner enough to immediately be given a position there).
  • In the initial sneak peek trailer, we see in the background that Ginger and Rocky have pages from newspapers about their farm escape. It’s not a stretch to say that Mrs. Tweedy was interviewed by the newspapers, and she may have been able to use that newfound fame to get herself back on her feet.
    • Jossed: She remarried to the rich and intelligent Dr. Fry.

Mrs. Tweedy will be Demoted to Dragon.

• Jossed: She's still in charge with her new husband Dr. Fry as her new minion.

This will be Darker and Edgier than the original.

• The plot involves a high-tech looking industrial facility with insane security that's doing something which has horrified the chickens enough to plan on raiding it. Mrs. Tweedy is also involved, which means it's probably going to be something much bigger than the mass production of chicken pies.
• Semi-jossed: The sequel itself is Lighter and Softer, though Mrs. Tweedy herself Took a Level in Jerkass and becomes a viler villain.

Mrs. Tweedy looks slightly younger because she got cosmetic surgery.

• Believe it or not they had cosmetic surgery back in the 60s, where this film appears to be taking place.

Mrs. Tweedy is the devil incarnate.

• After all, she was based on Adolf Hitler, whom was rumored to have been associated with the devil. Even her own guard dogs were afraid of her. And let's face it, there's no way any normal person could survive having a large barn door falling (or was it pushed?) onto them.
  • She did also appear relatively unharmed during the brief period between the pie machine exploding and the door falling on her, and the explosion that the machine (that she was stuck inside) made was large enough to destroy the barn it was in. Any normal person would have been killed from the machine exploding alone, the fact that she survived (and didn’t appear to have sustained any serious injuries) is almost terrifying.
  • The sequel does very little to dispel this theory, since Mrs. Tweedy once again survives an injury that would easily kill a normal human (in this instance, falling head-first into the nugget grinder).

Mrs. Tweedy will specifically target Ginger.

• Given that Ginger dropped her into her machine before the explosion, Mrs. Tweedy will undoubtedly recognize the little chicken with the green hat and go into revenge mode when she sees Ginger.
  • Considering Rocky also hit her in the face with a tricycle and pelted eggs at her, it’s possible she might want to exact some revenge against him too.
  • Confirmed, at least with regards to Ginger. Once Mrs. Tweedy realizes that "the little escape artist" is still around, she wastes no time trying to hunt her down and harm her.

The pie machine was just the start.

• Mrs. Tweedy already knows that machinery can do the hard work of mass slaughtering and processing chickens. If she’s found a new machine for her schemes, not only will it be just as horrifying as the pie machine was in, it’ll be operating on a much larger scale (given the size of the new facility). And whilst the pie machine never actually fulfilled its purpose in original, she’s not going to let that happen again - she’ll ensure that a new machine is fully operational and in full production.
  • Partially confirmed: The computer-controlled nugget machine is bigger and more horrific than the pie machine, and does manage to turn one chicken into nuggets. It still gets destroyed before she can use it on a full industrial scale, though.

What happened to Mr. Tweedy

Following the events of the first film, he and Mrs. Tweedy are now divorced. If he returns in the sequel, he will now be on the side of the chickens, having joined the police force or an animal welfare center, and shows up unexpectedly to shut down his ex wife's business.

Or alternatively, he's either remarried or enjoying a single life somewhere else and may only make a cameo in the sequel with no relevance to the plot.

• He’s not even mentioned in the film, it’s probably a safe assumption that after the events of the first film he’s left Mrs. Tweedy and has made a different life for himself.

The villain we see in the trailers is not Mrs. Tweedy.

This theory is also related to the “why is Mrs. Tweedy rich” question above.

I think the villain we’re seeing in the trailers is not Mrs. Tweedy. It will instead be revealed that that’s actually Mrs. Tweedy’s daughter. Here is my reasoning behind this.

1. This woman looks more youthful than Mrs. Tweedy.2. This film in-universe takes place years after the first Chicken Run, so it would make sense that if there was a hidden daughter in the first film, she would be a full grown woman by now.3. If Mrs. Tweedy did indeed die in the gravy explosion, it would explain why she is so rich.4. Being Mr and Mrs Tweedy’s daughter, it makes sense she would carry on the chicken farm legacy with modern tech.

• It’s already been confirmed that it’s the same Mrs Tweedy from the first film.

Mr. Tweedy has his own farm.

• Basically after divorcing his wife from the destruction of his last farm he undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and makes a new farm where the chickens are more free ranged for on the condition he can have the eggs and when they no longer can lay eggs he sets them free knowing that controlling them will lead to a rebellion. This is his way of making them work and retiring them when they’re done.
  • Mr Tweedy isn’t even mentioned in the film, let alone what he’s doing with his life now that he and Mrs. Tweedy have separated. Whilst it’s very possible that he’s started a new farm, there’s no indication that he has.

Molly will witness a chicken being slaughtered

• Molly doesn’t understand about the harsh reality of farms and what can happen to chickens. Since Ginger doesn’t seem to want to tell her, she’ll find out in a very hard way when she’s taken into the new farm.
  • Confirmed. Though it's a Sound-Only Death, Molly is visibly shaken when she hears one of the chickens at Fun Land Farms get processed into nuggets.

Foxes and/or weasels will be minor villains

• Given those two species of mammals are often sterotyped as chicken killers it could be possible that few members of their species could appear as minor threats to our poultry heroes, due to not being linked with the main plot of rescuing chickens from the nugget factory. And given that most animated villains follow Brains and Brawn/smart villain-dumb villain rule, the fox and weasel duo will appear serving as Evil Counterpart's to Nick and Fetcher, with fox being a Genius Bruiser, and the weasel being a dumb psycho.
  • Jossed. Neither animal appears, though there is a brief scene of one unseen animal growling at Molly from behind the brush.

Mrs. Tweedy divorced her husband.

• I mean, who wouldn't after being crushed by a massive door pushed by none other than your supposed life partner?
  • Confirmed

At least one of the main cast will get collared.

• Leading to some heart-wrenching moments and apologies being said as attempts are made to snap them out of the mind control.
  • Confirmed. Ginger is the one that gets collared and succumbs to the mind control for a while. The heartfelt apologies come after she's freed though.

If there will be a Chicken Run 3, it will feature Mrs. Tweedy surviving and being re-married again.

• Alternatively, she won't get re-married again because she hates how "idiotic" her last two were and will instead hire or build a more competent and loyal minion.

Ginger has accidentally smacked Rocky while having nightmares.

The film shows that Ginger has nasty memories of her past life, both when she's awake and when she's asleep. Furthermore, when she startles awake, Rocky also springs up, yelling, "Not in the Face!" Although this could be just a Waking Non Sequitur (or a reference to his own less-than-ideal past at the circus), it's also possible that Ginger has hit him before when she's half-awake and not sure where she is.

Mr. Tweedy became a dairy farmer after the original film.

• More peaceful, more obliging "coworkers", and the cheese sales alone to one cheery bloke in Wigan are enough to keep him in the black.

The sequel takes place in an Alternate Continuity from the original film.

• The events of the chickens' escape happened almost exactly as they did in the original timeline, but with minor alterations that distinguish it from the actual first film (i.e. taking place in 1953 instead of 1959, no children being born on the island until Molly came along).
  • Cutting Loose: Behind the Fences at Tweedy's Farm, a tie-in book to the first film, explains that Mrs. Tweedy moved to Scotland with Mr. Tweedy and started a seaweed farm. In this film, she's remarried to Dr. Fry and is still in the chicken industry.

Mrs. Tweedy killed her first husband.

• The sequel never says exactly what happened to him, only that he's not involved with Melisha anymore. It's entirely possible that she killed him as revenge for contributing to the ruin of her first business venture (and for nearly crushing her with that barn door).

Regarding Feathers McGraw being seen at the end of the film:

He will act as an unexpected ally to the chickens at first before his true intentions are revealed of robbery and double-crossing the chickens so he can carry out his real plan.

• Assuming the events are set-
  • Before The Wrong Trousers: Feathers will use the chickens as a distraction to break into a hidden warehouse containing the techno-trousers. He will set up a fake phone-mail order by finding the number of the first lodger he can find (Wallace's) in a phone book before he uses the techno-trousers to walk up the metal ceiling of the warehouse without being detected. As this is happening, Molly gets split from the group and comes across Feather's sketchbook containing Feather's plan to steal the techno-trousers to fulfil his planned theft of a diamond while leading the chickens into a trap so he can escape.
    
    Not long after, Feathers nearly does so (even to the point that he threatens any chicken that comes too close with a revolver that he stole from the farmer's coat pocket) but winds up blinded by a flash from the farmer's Polaroid camera taken by Molly and giving Frizzle the chance to swipe and whack Feathers unconscious with the handle-piece of his gun. Molly will then take control of the trousers to open the farm's gates from outside.
    
    Molly later mentions to her parents that although Feathers got away from the farmer with the trousers, she had time to tamper with the circuitry so that the suction feet and standby modes of the trousers would malfunction. This, combined with the farmer retrieving the photograph of 'The weird-looking chicken' with his full name written on the back with crayon, will ensure that Feathers will have to deal with said consequences later in The Wrong Trousers.
  • After The Wrong Trousers (or Project Zoo): Feathers wants to rob the farmer's fortune and plans to lead the chickens into a trap. But as with the other scenario, Molly finds out about his plan, the chickens chase Feathers away, and they wind up escaping from the farm by themselves while Feathers winds up having the tables completely turned on him, being chased by the farmer and his guard dogs; leaving his fate ambiguous.
  • Bonus points if said farmer is revealed to be Mr. Tweedy.

If the third film uses the idea of Mrs. Tweedy starting an alligator farm, the ending will have her surrounded by gators.

Unlike Piella, whether it will stick is debatable, but every entry somehow ends with Mrs. Tweedy in a nasty situation and this seems a likely one for those circumstances.