What is Early Man?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox film | name = Early Man | image = | caption = | director = [[Nick Park]] | screenplay = Mark Burton<br /> James Higginson | story = Mark Burton<br /> Nick Park | producer = Peter Lord<br /> David Sproxton<br /> Nick Park<br /> Carla Shelley<br /> Richard Beek | starring = [[Eddie Redmayne]]<br /> [[Tom Hiddleston]]<br /> [[Maisie Williams]]<br /> [[Timothy Spall]] | cinematography = Dave Alex Riddett | editing = Sim Evan-Jones | music = [[Harry Gregson-Williams]]<br /> Tom Howe | production_companies = [[Aardman Animations]]<br /> [[British Film Institute]] | distributor = StudioCanal | released = 20 January 2018 (FBI Southbank)<br /> 26 January 2018 ([[United Kingdom]]) | runtime = 87 minutes | country = [[United Kingdom]] | language = English | budget = $50 million | gross = $54.6 million }} '''''Early Man''''' is a 2018 British [[stop motion]] [[animated]] [[sports]] [[comedy movie|comedy]] movie directed by [[Nick Park]], the creator of ''[[Wallace & Gromit]]'', written by Mark Burton and James Higginson, and starring the voices of [[Eddie Redmayne]], [[Tom Hiddleston]], [[Maisie Williams]] and [[Timothy Spall]]. The movie follows a tribe of primitive [[Stone Age]] valley dwellers, who have to defend their land from [[bronze]]-using invaders in a [[football]] match. The movie premiered on 20 January 2018 at the BFI Southbank cinema. Released theatrically on 26 January 2018, the movie received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the animation, voice acting and humour, although some deemed it inferior to previous [[Aardman]] works. The movie underperformed at the box office, only grossing $54 million against a budget of $50 million. ==Cast== * [[Eddie Redmayne]] as Dug * [[Tom Hiddleston]] as Lord Nooth * [[Maisie Williams]] as Goona * [[Timothy Spall]] as Chief Bobnar * [[Miriam Margolyes]] as Queen Oofeefa * [[Kayvan Novak]] as Dino and Jurgend * [[Rob Brydon]] as Brian, Bryan, Message Bird and Gonad the Gaul * [[Richard Ayoade]] as Treebor * [[Selina Griffiths]]