The Fantastic Mr Fox

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Updated July 30

Trailer is out. Click the pic to check it out:

Fox has debuted the trailer for Wes Anderson's stop-motion feature Fantastic Mr. Fox based on the Roald Dahl classic. This features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Brian Cox, Michael Gambon, and even Wes Anderson himself (as the Weasel). I really want to like this, just because I love well-made stop-motion animation, but I can't get entirely into it yet. It looks very quirky and very fun, literally like a Wes Anderson movie that was made live-action that someone decided to make a stop-motion version of separately. Anyway, check this out!

You can also watch the trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox in High Definition on Yahoo

Fantastic Mr. Fox is both written and directed by the fantastic Oscar nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson, of Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and The Darjeeling Limited most recently. This is based on Roald Dahl's classic children's book of the same name. Fellow indie director Noah Baumbach also helped co-write the screenplay with Anderson. Fox Searchlight is bringing Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox to theaters everywhere starting on November 13th this fall.

Filmsactu.com has two photos from Wes Anderson’s upcoming Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring the voice talents of George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray. One is essentially the same as the image we saw last week, but it is much larger and shows a couple more characters. The other shows only Mr. Fox (Clooney), standing in a library or study in front of a painting of a bunch of badgers — does that mean he’s in the home of Mr. Badger, voiced by Bill Murray? See the images in full after the break.

It’s interesting that these show up now, because a couple of sites that republished the image that JoBlo had last week were hit with cease and desist orders from Fox. That didn’t make sense, since the image seemed to have been officially released, but this is the Fox publicity department, so who knows?

I like seeing these images in better resolution than the original picture. They make the film look a lot less animatronic and creepy; the second solo image of Fox is much more like what I expected to see in the first place. There’s still a great handmade quality, and the models definitely don’t look like what we’ve come to associate with original director Henry Selick. Too bad about the glazed look on Fox’s face in the group shot, but the rest of the characters look better than I’d originally given them credit for.

The story follows Mr. Fox and his conflict with three mean, greedy farmers from whom he’s been stealing food. Wes Anderson teamed up with animator Mark Gustafson to direct the picture. Fantastic Mr. Fox is set for release on November 13, but we still figure it will premiere at the Venice Film Festival, which begins on September 2, and perhaps show up at the Toronto Film Fest a week later.