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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom

2026 British film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is a 2026 British stop motion animated comedy horror film directed by Steve Cox and Matthew Walker and written by Mark Burton and Giles Pilbrow. Produced by Aardman, it is the third feature film based on the television series Shaun the Sheep, itself a spin-off of the Wallace & Gromit short film A Close Shave (1995). The plot follows Shaun as he tries to save Halloween for the residents of Mossy Bottom farm. Things take a turn for the worse when The Farmer suddenly goes missing and a mysterious beast begins roaming nearby.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom” is 2026 British film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shaun, Sheep and Beast, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Shaun, Sheep and Beast is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2026 British film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2026 and 1995.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom primary sources, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom archive and Shaun research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.