Chicken City – A Chicken Movie! — Randy’s Chicken Blog

So, I was bitten with the film bug and decided to return to my chicken roots and produce my second film, Chicken City, based on my book, The Complete Chicken. With my creative team of editors, artists, musicians and an animator, the film is well underway with a release date of Fall 2023.

 RCB: Okay. Let’s imagine that I’ve picked up my big box of popcorn and my extra-large soda, I’ve settled into my seat, the screen lights up, and the movie’s underway. Tell me about my experience watching this film. What am I going to see?

 PP: You’ll be amazed. Chicken City will show you how steeped in history the chicken really is. You’ll learn more about chickens than you could ever imagine. Hence Chicken Enlightenment! Who would have thought that chickens have been around since the dawn of history. They have been worshipped, abhorred, adored, sacrificed, maligned, sentimentalized and idealized. Artists, musicians, authors, film makers, and even politicians have reflected on the chicken.

 You’ll “tour” Chicken City. At the Poulet Musee you’ll explore the history of the chicken. You’ll start with the Red Jungle Fowl, around 3500 BC. And you’ll learn how it spread throughout the world. You’ll discover its importance in mythology, religion, and as an industry.

The Cock and Bull Cafe will offer you chicken inspired recipes and their history. And there will be entertainment: Some favorite chicken TV shows, chicken inspired music, and radio shows.

 You’ll get to take in an art show called A Chicken in Every Art at the Eggenheim Museum. From Grant Wood to Picasso to Chagall, almost all great artists have a chicken in their body of work.

At the Fowl Film Festival, film historian, Roger Egbert will pay a tribute to some of the great chicken scenes in films like Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, Ma and Pa Kettle, Rocky and more.

And at the Leghorn Library, Abigail Australorp will talk about some of the great authors with chicken inspired works from Aesop to Hans Christian Anderson and even William Shakespeare.

Finally, at the Roosterville Academy, Professor Agbar will teach many of the chicken inspired words, some naughty some nice, and will also suggest chicken field trips including Key West, Wayne Nebraska and Chicken, Alaska.

 RCB:  I am honestly really looking forward to the release of this film! I am so eggcited!

 PP: An eggstraordinary time will be had by all at Chicken City!