First Look: The Fantastic Mr Fox

I have to admit, I'm not hugely excited over this one but as it's a movie based on a book from my childhood I thought it prudent to feature it as I do have fond memories of my visits to the world created by Roald Dahl.

Wes Anderson's "The Fantastic Mr Fox" will be released in the UK on 23rd October 2009 and tells the story of Mr. Fox, Mrs. Fox, and all their fox babies who live under a hill under a tree, along with Badger, Rabbit, Weasel, and all of their families. To make ends meet, every night, Mr. Fox steals a meal from one of the three crooked farmers--Boggis, a chicken farmer, Bunce, who has a little bit of everything but only eats duck liver, and Bean, who farms turkeys and apples and subsists solely on apple cider. With his keen sense of smell, and the farmers' distinctive diets, Mr. Fox has no problem evading them.

After such treatment, the greedy farmers band together to end Mr. Fox. They ambush him at the base of his hole in the hill, and while Mr. Fox survives, his tail does not. Thus begins an obsession on the part of the farmers. They first try to dig the foxes out, but they are outdug by eight sets of paws. Then, they move to starving them out. This is unfortunate, as no other creatures living under the hill (though now more of a valley; a bulldozer was involved at one point) can get out, either. Mr. Fox is not a very popular figure until he chances across the idea of digging under the farmhouses...

I love that Bill Murray is involved and the way in which this is filmed is quite unique and very impressive as you will see from the photos. The official website has a photo slide show, which is worth checking out here. Other than that, check out these photos below from USAToday.











Go to USAToday for the rest of the images