“But I don’t have a whole lot of experience being shot out of a slingshot at pigs.” “I can write things about myself and my life,” says the country singer and coach on NBC’s hit singing competition The Voice. Many songwriters live by the maxim “Write what you know,” so when Blake Shelton was tasked with coming up with a tune for The Angry Birds Movie, he hit a roadblock. New country for young men: Blake Shelton will reach a whole new audience when he plays evil cowboy pig Earl. He plays a pig with a very Southern drawl and a vendetta against all of bird kind. Shelton’s character fits the bill for a country artist - a promo photo shows Earl wearing a cowboy getup and carrying an acoustic guitar.īlake Shelton – who has been recently cast as one of the many pigs that have caused the birds to be quite angry. It features the voices of Jason Sudeikis, Maya Rudolph, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad and more. The movie tells the story of the origin of the feud between the two species and how they came to be adversaries. His character will be one of the now-famous green “piggies” - the enemies of the Angry Birds. So perhaps that was what attracted Blake Shelton to the part of a porcine villain in the forthcoming The Angry Birds Movie.
They have to team up to investigate the pigs in order to find out and thwart their evil plans.īut it is unlikely they are as huge fans as Blake of the immensely popular series, as he freely admits he was something of an addict of the Worms-esque game, in which a player launches birds at their porcine enemies using a catapult for propulsion. The movie, which comes out May 20th, tells the story of seven appropriately angry birds who live on a small paradise and whose life is turned upside down by the impending arrival of the pigs. Here’s an exclusive first look at the brand new song for the movie, The Angry Birds Movie, titled “Friends,” along with an adorably fun music video featuring several of the characters from the movie.Īs a country singer Shelton is well aware a pig is the most intelligent of all farmyard animals.
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