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Louisa Mellor Jul 5, 2016

As Blue Sky delivers the 5th in the Ice Age franchise, we look at the story of sabre-toothed critter Scrat, the hit nobody expected…

The old saw that success has many fathers but failure is an orphan goes double for the movies. Everyone wants to share the glory of a hit while the misses are curiously only ever the responsibility of someone else.

That’s borne out in the case of Scrat, the breakout star of the Ice Age series. Had audiences not responded so ardently to the hapless critter’s appearance in the first film’s trailer, the tale of his creation would likely have been consigned to Blue Sky Studios’ memory dump. As Scrat turned out to be a huge, franchise-building success, the sabre-toothed squirrel seems to have more origin stories going around than Spider-Man.

One such says Scrat (or, in a ‘the Batman’ sort of deal,...