George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Michael Gambon, Helen McCrory, Wes Anderson, Eric Anderson, Jarvis Cocker
Mr and Mrs Fox (Clooney and Streep) live an idyllic home life with their son Ash (Schwartzman) and visiting young nephew Kristopherson (Eric Anderson). But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost.
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November 13, 2009: Wes acts out Fox:
This is a rather funny little behind the scenes feature from HitFix which details how Wes Anderson acted out every scene himself as a model for the animators for THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX . Like literally, if you see a character doing something onscreen,...
September 30, 2009: Mr. Fox trailer #2:
It took me a long time but I'm finally getting warmer to Wes Anderson's stop-motioned take on THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX. How could I resist an argument between rodents who sound like George Clooney and Bill Murray? And waddaya know - even Owen Wilson appears to...
September 8, 2009: Iron, Fox & Dragons Poster:
A bunch of posters made their way onto the net over the weekend, 2 of 'em inconsequential at best and one pretty interesting.
First came Russian one-sheets for IRON MAN 2 and Dreamworks' HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON . I'm guessing Russian but feel free to...
September 1, 2009: Behind Mr. Fox:
Want some hints as to how filmmaker Wes Anderson achieved the intriguing (creepy?) results for his animated tale THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX ?
This new behind-the-scenes featurette (narrated by Jason Schwartzman) gives some insight into Anderson's processes, both...
July 30, 2009: Mr. Fox trailer!:
The long-awaited trailer for Wes Anderson's stop-motion FANTASTIC MR. FOX has finally arrived. We've seen glimpses of the film's visual stylings so far, but this is our first real look at the thing in motion.
It's already eliciting mixed reactions from the...
July 24, 2009: More Mr. Fox pics:
USA Today recently debuted a pretty cool and extensive feature on the upcoming Wes Anderson directed, Roald Dahl based, stop motion animated THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX . Along with the feature, they debuted quite a few new pics from the film itself and behind the...
July 16, 2009: Fantastic Fox pics:
A few days ago, we brought you an exclusive look at the Roald Dahl adapted, Wes Anderson directed THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX , which stars George Clooney's voice as a the titular fabulous fox who's looking to be eliminated by angry farmers.
Today, the...
September 27, 2007: Wes pals join Mr. Fox:
I just saw THE DARJEELING LIMITED last night (review to come soon) and I wasn't surprised at all to see Bill Murray making an uncredited cameo. So I'm even less surprised to learn today that Murray, along with other frequent Wes Anderson collaborator Jason...
February 23, 2007: Clooney is a Fox:
Oscar winners George Clooney and Cate Blanchett are in talks to voice the lead characters in Wes Anderson's upcoming animated film THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX. The film is based on the classic Roald Dahl tale and follows a wily fox (Clooney) who uses his cunning to...
October 26, 2006: Fox takes Fox:
Fox Animation has come aboard to finance and distribute the stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX to be directed by Wes Anderson. The script was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach who collaborated on THE LIFE AQUATIC before Baumbach...
July 17, 2006: Wes Anderson's next:
The following is just a tiny tidbit, a morsel, a hint of what Wes Anderson's project after the upcoming THE FANTASTIC MR. FOX will be. Under most circumstances, such a small mention would not be blown up into full story but since we're talking Wes "I'm one of...
May 12, 2004: Hottie Update!:
Just another round up of all things hotly assed. As long as there are
beautiful women in this world wearing dresses 8 sizes too small for them, I'll
have something to write about. Don't forget to check in with
JoBlo's Cannes coverage
where I'm confident...
May 13, 2004: Ultimate FF movie? - Updated!:
UPDATE! - Avi Arad has confirmed the report below in an interview with Movie Insider magazine saying, "When you look at Ultimate Fantastic Four, you can see the direction for the costume, for the age, for the energy for what we want to do with Fantastic Four."...
May 5, 2004: FF a "funny family" film?:
Despite a few denials to the contrary, it certainly seems like Fox's THE FANTASTIC FOUR is shaping up to be the comedy we all feared. Marvel Studios exec Avi Arad spoke in his conference call to Marvel stakeholders yesterday and described the upcoming movie as a...
April 13, 2004: FF casting rumors:
You had to know that once it was announced FANTASTIC FOUR was a go this summer under director Tim Story the casting rumors would start almost immediately. Sure enough they did, later that day when the names Michael Chiklis and Tim Robbins were talked about for...
April 7, 2004: Marvel confirms FF:
If the news on the web that Tim Story would be directing FANTASTIC FOUR wasn't enough to convince you, Marvel and Fox confirmed the news late yesterday. Story will indeed direct the FANTASTIC FOUR and is already scouting locations in Vancouver for an August...
April 6, 2004: Story tells FF story!:
Word began to surface yesterday, via an interview with Marvel Studios head Avi Arad, that a director for Fox's adaptation of THE FANTASTIC FOUR would be announced this week, possibly as early as today. Well it didn't take long for the word to leak out as to who...
