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Fantastic Move for Anderson
Wes Anderson on board with Revolution for a stop-motion animation adaptation
of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Monday, November 1, 2004
By Mark Umbach
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Anderson will write and direct
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Joe Roth and his Revolution Studios are teaming with The Royal Tenenbaums'
writer-director Wes Anderson for a big screen stop-motion animation adaptation
of Roald Dahl's The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which will be released by Sony.
The project marks the first dip into animation for both Anderson, who will direct
the project, and Revolution.
Anderson and Noah Baumbach, who recently collaborated on the script for The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, will adapt the tome, which centers
on a family of sly foxes who find themselves the targets of three ugly farmers'
guns. The farmers are tired of sharing their chickens with the foxes and want
the foxes terminated.
Anderson, repped by UTA, is known for his work on witty comedies such as Rushmore
and Tenenbaums. He also wrote and directed Bottle Rocket,
and his most recent effort, Life Aquatic, will be released on Christmas
Day by Buena Vista.
For Roth's part, he most recently directed the holiday comedy Christmas
with the Kranks, which will bow in November. His other helming credits include
America's Sweethearts and Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.
On the producing side, his more recent efforts include The Forgotten,
Mona Lisa Smile and Hollywood Homicide.
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