Tag: Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Jarvis Cocker and “Fantastic Mr. Fox”

From Time Out Chicago:

TOC: Yet you wrote songs for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, appearing in the film as the frontman of the Weird Sisters. Do kids recognize you?
Jarvis Cocker: I had a very specific look going on in that film—giant fur jacket, snakeskin trousers—that I wouldn’t normally wear down the street. That would get me attention, but probably the wrong kind of attention. I’ve been doing some stuff for a children’s film Wes Anderson is doing, an animated feature.

TOC: The stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Jarvis Cocker: I’ve written three, four songs, and some of that might become bits of the score.

TOC: Now you’re writing the new Disney songs.
Jarvis Cocker: If you criticize Disney, the next step is “do better.” I get the chance to do it myself and corrupt young minds.

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Vulpes Vuples

The Guardian paper in the UK published an informative article on foxes recently. Natually our man Wes’ new film in production gets a mention:

Did you know?

Wes Anderson, the film director behind The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic, is working on a big-screen animated version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story The Fantastic Mr Fox. George Clooney will play the lead role. Naturally.

Other fascinating facts and observations are noted as well:

And their loud love-making – does that not bother you?

Yeah, quite frightening. It sounds a bit like a baby being strangled. It doesn’t sound like either one of them is enjoying it very much.