Fantastic Mr. Fox | film by Anderson [2009] | Britannica (original) (raw)
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Baumbach
In Noah Baumbach: Film career …2009, cowriting the screenplay for Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson’s stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1970 children’s book of the same name. In 2010 Baumbach wrote (with Leigh) and directed Greenberg, which starred Leigh, Ben Stiller, and Greta Gerwig. Two years later came his romantic comedy drama Frances Ha. Between… Read More
In George Clooney …of the title character in Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book. In Up in the Air (2009), Clooney appeared as a consultant who specializes in firing people, and he portrayed an assassin on assignment in Italy in the thriller The American (2010). He moved… Read More
Dahl
In Roald Dahl Fox (1970; film 2009), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The BFG (1982; films 1989 and 2016), and The Witches (1983; film 1990). One of his last such books, Matilda (1988), was adapted for film (1996 Read More
discussed in biography
In Wes Anderson …turned to stop-motion animation for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), an adaptation of a book by popular children’s author Roald Dahl. The film, which earned an Oscar nomination for best animated feature, was cowritten with Baumbach and featured the voices of Murray, Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, George Clooney, and Meryl Streep. Despite… Read More
Murray
In Bill Murray …of a badger in Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), an animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book. Murray lent his voice to another Anderson animated feature, Isle of Dogs (2018), playing one of a band of canines exiled to the aptly named Trash Island. Read More
Streep
In Meryl Streep: A devil, Julia Child, and Margaret Thatcher Fox in the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), a film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book, and starred with Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin in It’s Complicated (2009), a comedy about a divorced woman having an affair with her remarried ex-husband. She then stepped into the role of Margaret… Read More
