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Wes Anderson's 'The Fantastic Mr Fox' Premieres Oct 23

by Alyzee | July 27, 2009 at 08:48 am

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Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated feature 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox' will open this year's London Film Festival. The film is based on Roald Dahl's children's story about a family of foxes that must use their cunning to escape three evil farmers.

"It was the first book I ever owned," says the auteur behind The Royal Tenenbaums and The Darjeeling Limited. "My brothers and I loved Mr. Fox and all the digging. We were obsessed with underground forts and tunnels."

The film was shot at London's Three Mills Studios and features many well-known voices - George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston all use their voices in the film. Several British actors have also played a role.

Those left wanting more after watching Henry Selick's film based on Neil Gaiman's Coraline are surely in for a treat. Anderson has shown a preference for Selick`s animation style in the past:

Ever since he asked stop-motion specialist Henry Selick to create exotic sea creatures for 2004's The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson has been enamored with this painstaking process of animation.