The new official site is live. Included? An iPhone app (coming soon). And music clips. Wonderful music clips.
Wes Anderson on the November 2009 cover of Sight & Sound (BFI)
Wes is featured on the cover of the BFI Film Fest edition (November 2009) of Sight & Sound, the magazine of the British Film Institute. If you can’t find it at your local newsstand, the site sells individual copies (though November is not available yet). We will post more once someone has the issue in hand. Thanks to our old pal Derek Hill for the tip.
Fantastic Mr. Fox audio book (excerpt) free on iTunes today
Read by Roald Dahl himself.
Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer (rescored)
The second Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer rescored, quite unofficially.
Guardian: “Jarvis Cocker bags Roald Dahl film role”
From the Observer (UK):
“I can’t act so it’s just as well they had a puppet to do it,” says Jarvis Cocker of his proper film debut, in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox. “The puppet gives a much less wooden performance than I would.”
Fantastic Mr Fox. “The puppet gives a much less wooden performance than I would.”
Cocker voices Petey, one of the few human characters, his role the result of meeting director Anderson when DJing with Pulp bassist Steve Mackey in Paris at the wrap party for Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette. “When he’d written the script, he’d also written the words for this song and he asked if I’d do the music for it. Which was quite nice for me ’cause usually when I get asked to do things it’s the other way round – they want me to do the words.” Cocker discounts his previous film appearance, as part of band the Wyrd Sisters in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as “more like prancing around on stage”.
Early versions of Fantastic Mr Fox cast him as an onscreen narrator but US test audiences were baffled. “I may turn up as a DVD extra in the future,” he opines.
Video: “A Cutting Edge Fox”
Fantastic Mr. Fox tie-in books ship this Thursday
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New Fantastic Mr. Fox banner and poster
From Empire:
Fantastic Mr. Fox tidbits
Fantastic Mr. Fox will make its North American premiere on October 30 at this year’s AFI Fest in Los Angeles (source).
The film has been rated PG by the MPAA for “action, smoking and slang humor” (source).
The BFI London Film Fest has a new trailer (nothing from Mr. Fox). We anxiously await the second Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer… no word on a time frame.
Second Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer on the way
Stay tuned…