My obsession with Wes Anderson’s latest film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, continues. Based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book, Anderson’s film brings to life a world in which foxes steal from farmers and talk like George Clooney. Thanks to joblo.com for finding this cool exclusive video from hitfix. Apparently, there have been rumors going around that Mr. Anderson has not been very involved in the production of the film but this video shows otherwise. He acted out many of the scenes himself, which were used as the basis for the stop-motion characters.
A lot of work went into this one and I think it looks pretty amazing. It has already been released in select theaters but it will be realsed nationwide on Thanksgiving.
Here are some other cool videos that show more on the making of the film:
This one features Mrs. Dahl talking about how Wes Anderson captured her late husband’s vision.
My favorite video, which shows more about how the animation was done can be found here.
This movie looks awesome; even though I never read the book by Dahl, I still want to see the film! I love stop-motion and I think the technique is going to work really well in this movie.
I might give that one a shot, though I am by no means a fan of Wes Anderson. His movies tend to annoy me.
Unrelated, but btw, Pirate Radio was freaking amazing.
I think Wes Anderson movies are pretty hit or miss for me (Rushmore= definite hit), but this sounds like a pretty cool idea; I’ll have to check it out, for sure.
I read this book! I used to read Roald Dahl all the time back when I was a young boy (lying… I still read him). In any case, I didn’t know a “Fantastic Mr. Fox” movie was coming out. I just might have to go see it!
Wes Anderson is great. I love all his movies so I’m hoping this follows suit even though it’s pretty different from the usual with Schwartzman and the gang. Should be good though.
I was really curious about this movie and after reading your post, I just might go see it! Good use of links and videos