#WHO WAS THE PODUCER OF FANTASTIC MR.FOX MOVIE#

'Mr Fox has son Ash who is awkward and clumsy, and they are visited by his nephew Kristofferson who is effortlessly handsome and athletic,' says Abate. One of the other changes is that Anderson has given personalities to the fox children. She adds: 'It's a characteristic of Wes's movies to have such a sidekick. 'The possum sidekick Kylie is such a great character - it's great for Mr Fox to have that sounding board and that flipside of his personality.'

#WHO WAS THE PODUCER OF FANTASTIC MR.FOX MOVIE#

It is a very inspiring place, you feel Roald Dahl everywhere you look.'Ībate says that some of the new elements that Anderson introduces into the movie seem like a natural extension of Dahl's story. He wrote some of the script while he was visiting Great Missenden. Roald Dahl's daughter Lucy welcomed the production team to the family home before the filming began. 'It has a tactile texture and a nostalgic kind of quality that really lends itself to this story.' 'Wes has always been a fan of stop motion,' Abate says. Each character was posed 12 different times for every second of film. One remarkable aspect of the film, in these days of CGI, is that it has an almost home-made feel to it. George Clooney and Meryl Streep provide the voices of Mr and Mrs Fox, and the cast includes by Bill Murray as Badger, Jason Schwartzman as Ash, Owen Wilson as Coach Skip and Willem Dafoe as Rat.Įven former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker pops up as a human character called Petey.

With Anderson at the helm, it's no surprise that the film features his trademark dysfunctional family unit and numerous actors from his pool of regulars. Jason Schwartzman talks about his role as Ash Box office: 020-7226 1787.Please turn on JavaScript. Perhaps it’s not so bad that I was stood up after all… Everyone seems rapt and one kid gets so involved, he tries to clamber right on to the stage. A fluffy rat sits on one child’s knee and the now huge and rather glamorous puppet-foxes greet the spellbound kids with regal waves of their paws. The puppets, which earlier felt small and remote, venture into the audience and interact with the kids. Samuel Dutton’s Fantastic Mr Fox grows twice as charismatic with Dutton’s face and features now out in the open, the foxy kids seem doubly dinky, and John Broughton’s skeletal farmer Bean becomes infinitely more menacing.īen Glasstone’s songs feel sparkier, too, particularly the plucky number, Chicken House Number One. It’s an odd phenomenon, but puppet shows often feel more mysterious when one can see the strings attached. The puppets double in size and the puppeteers, earlier hidden by the set, move out into the open. The second half, thankfully, is a different story. Everyone seems mildly chuffed with the whole affair – but it certainly doesn’t feel like we’re winning over a young new generation of theatre-lovers. When I chat to my mini companions during the interval, they’re mostly just relieved that Sarah Wood’s adaptation is shorter than Roald Dahl’s original. The kids around me feel engaged but not enthralled. When the lighting is right and the shadowing spooky enough, they’re really quite frightening. The evil farmers, Boggis, Bunce and Bean, are far more appealing and look like weird raggedy dolls with gothic cutout heads. Nearly everything is made of cardboard and it all feels a little, well, flat. They’re nimble creations but they’re not the most lovable stage creatures I’ve ever seen.

The puppets are initially underwhelming: the foxes are sleek, red cardboard cutouts.

Who was the poducer of fantastic mr.fox