Sep 21 2009'Fantastic Mr. Fox' Featurette: Posthumously Author Approved
Spike Jonze has some competition in the author approved children's book adaptation department. While a recent featurette revealed that Where the Wild Thing Are had the blessing and spirit of its author, Maurice Sendak, putting Jonze in the clear lead, Wes Anderson has answered back with a similar behind-the-scenes look in which you see how the director has literally recreated author Roald Dahl's pastoral home in miniature for use in his stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox adaptation. And if that's not enough, the widow Dahl says Anderson achieved the atmosphere Roald Dahl would have wanted so well, she burst into tears when she saw the set. Though, I suppose we'd have to know if she also burst into tears on the set of Danny DeVito's Matilda to know if her weeping holds any meaning whatsoever.
Reader Comments
1. foxy - September 21, 2009 1:21 PM
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2. jaime - September 21, 2009 1:31 PM
i'm watching every single video we get from this film. i think wes anderson is quickly becoming one of my favorite directors. i've watched life aquatic and darjeeling limited about 3 times each by now.
3. stop-motion fan - September 21, 2009 1:52 PM
So they went to great pains to recreate the world of Roald Dahl. Did Roald Dahl live in a cheap looking and jerkily animated world and speak with an American accent? The sets look like poor rip-offs of the Aardman films. I generally get the feeling of: been there, seen it, seen it looking much better.
Wes Anderson's films are, generally, very dull. This weird taxidermist's delight that he's concocted doesn't look much fun at all, despite what they claim. FAIL.
4. Squirrel Master - September 22, 2009 7:46 AM
@stop-motion fan
Wes Anderson's movies are generally dull? What do you expect? Cars turning into robots?
5. anon - September 22, 2009 2:17 PM
It's hard telling which movie will be more hipster... Jesus
6. Nick - September 22, 2009 6:54 PM
I will of course see both because real hipsters would tell you not to watch it and then go off about Harryhousen and some 1960's animated version of "The Phantom Tollbooth" then ask you if you've heard about some local band that is cool because they build their instruments out of things discarded by homeless people.
After all of that, I'd like to see an EPK by an author talking about how someone screwed up the interpretation of their film and then starts trashing their own office and setting fire to the director's car.