Fantastic Mr. Fox

MisterLittleJeans · **Joined:** February 12th, 2004, 1:12 pm **Posts:** 336

contull Wrote:suh-weeeeeeeeeet!

You took it right out of my mouth!

Jonestown · **Posted:** March 13th, 2006, 2:30 pm

2007 sounds good. 3 years after TLA. Exactly the time period between TRT and TLA.

highwaters · **Posted:** March 17th, 2006, 2:11 pm

A little splash of Wes is so much better than no Wes next year.

I need more characters, though, I hope he and Noah are double dippin' the pens while in Paris (or wherever each dude lives these days).

Hmmm. Goodie.

Swordfishbone · **Posted:** March 29th, 2006, 7:24 am

First, I was put off by the idea. But then I thought: what the hell...you never now what a Wes Anderson animated movie looks like till you've actualy seen it.

Kumar's Touch · **Posted:** May 1st, 2006, 6:43 pm

More on Joe Roth closing Revolution Studios in this New York Times article. Still no word on Mr. Fox's fate.

Mr. Roth said he expected to sell Revolution's 47-film library after the last movie was released in October 2007. And he predicted that investors, including Sony, would receive a healthy rate of return on their initial investment, though financial analysts say the number is difficult to determine until the last movies are released.

Can Wes finish pre-production, shoot the film, and get it edited for an October 2007 release? He'd have to be a couple of months ahead of his normal schedule, considering the last 3 have been released in December, almost exactly three years apart, with the last in 2004 (meaning we could reasonably expect his next film to be done by December 2007). And is this possible w/o Henry Selick?

chelseagirl · **Posted:** May 2nd, 2006, 6:39 am

major sigh ... we are all on tenterhooks now.

Jonestown · **Posted:** May 7th, 2006, 9:50 am

Man, I want to see a new Wes-film now :(

micaht · **Joined:** January 4th, 2005, 1:59 pm **Posts:** 11

Howdy. WIRED magazine just interviewed Mark Mothersbaugh and they report the following...

Much of Mothersbaugh's most inventive work appears in the movies of Wes Anderson. The director is obsessed with music, and the two often spend hours together listening to stylistic models before Mothersbaugh composes a note. For Rushmore, it was the baroque strains of Vivaldi; for The Royal Tenenbaums, French impressionists like Debussy. These days, they're listening to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in preparation for Anderson's next production, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox. "It's a dark story," Mothersbaugh says. "There's a lot of flesh eating involved."

Kumar's Touch · **Posted:** May 9th, 2006, 10:11 am

Great news. I'd like like to see Joe Roth mention that he is indeed producing the film. Otherwise, sure, Wes, Noah, and Mark can talk about it all they want, but they could be taking the film elsewhere. I'd like to see the movie get made as soon as possible, so I'm hoping Roth is indeed doing it as the last movie for Revolution.

chelseagirl · **Posted:** May 10th, 2006, 11:43 am

gilbert and sullivan? whoa, i wouldn't have imagined that. but thansk for teh heads up re: Wired!

Kumar's Touch · **Posted:** October 26th, 2006, 10:11 am

Variety:

Fox Animation has snared "Fantastic Mr. Fox."

The 20th Century Fox division will turn the Roald Dahl classic title into a film that will mix several forms of animation, primarily stop-motion.

Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach adapted the book; Anderson will direct and produce with Scott Rudin.

Tome tells the story of a fox who uses its wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the fox and resort to a shock-and-awe offensive.

Project was originally bought by Joe Roth and Revolution Studios in 2004. When Revolution folded, Fox Animation president Chris Meledandri moved in on the project.

Rudin and Anderson are already collaborating on Fox Searchlight's "The Darjeeling Limited," with Anderson to direct; Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman star.

"Fox" marks the director's first feature foray into animation. Anderson will start pre-production and design while shooting "Darjeeling." He plans to make "Fox" in England, where part of "Darjeeling" will be shot.

Fox has a July 27 date on "The Simpsons" movie, followed by a March 14, 2008, release date on "Horton Hears a Who." The hope is for "Fantastic Mr. Fox" to be Fox Animation's next entry, ready for release prior to the next CG-animated film by "Ice Age" makers Blue Sky.

I'm guessing it is being set for a Winter 2008 release. Glad to hear he'll do it in England. It only makes sense that he'll be able to start Mr. Fox pretty quickly after wrapping Darjeeling because the script is already done. So we could have 2 Wes films in 2 years. That would be awesome.

DudleyFan · **Joined:** January 7th, 2002, 11:40 pm **Posts:** 1620

Hey, this is good news. Kumar! I've been telling the kiddies in my library for a year now that we would be seeing this movie; now it looks like we really will.

Loraxaeon · **Joined:** July 18th, 2004, 11:05 pm **Posts:** 759

That's really awesome news. I thought the project had died with Revolution (who i'm thankful doesn't have the movie anymore because they made horrible movie and marketing decisions). Fox has a good track record with this kind of stuff I think, so...awesome.

mazzi · **Posted:** October 27th, 2006, 7:06 am

Maybe te animation studio will be the same of Wallace and Gromit?

Kumar's Touch · **Posted:** October 27th, 2006, 1:51 pm

I think Aardman (Wallace & Gromit; Chicken Run) works exclusively with Dreamworks Animation, but I could be wrong.

I'd still like to see Henry Selick work on the film, but hopefully Wes learned enough from him doing TLA.

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