Anderson Countdown Part 6 - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Hello everyone and welcome to Some Like It Scott's newest Countdown miniseries: the Wes Anderson Countdown. To honor one of the great still-working indie writer-director auteurs, who's next film ASTEROID CITY comes out later this year, Scott, Scott, and Jay will be watching all 10 of the American filmmakers' works to-date, from his origins with the '90s heist-comedy BOTTLE ROCKET, all the way to his latest feature, 2021's star-studded anthology drama THE FRENCH DISPATCH. Join us each week over the next 10 weeks as we progress through Anderson's full oeuvre in the buildup to ASTEROID CITY!

 

On part 6 of the Anderson Countdown, Scott, Scott, and Jay get to talk about a countdown series first: an animated film, with Wes Anderson’s 2009 stop-motion animated comedy, FANTASTIC MR. FOX. Directed by Anderson, and co-written with THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU collaborator, Noah Baumbach, and adapted from the famous Roald Dahl children’s book, FANTASTIC MR. FOX stars George Clooney as the titular Mr. Fox, who after several years removed from his life of thievery, finds himself on a spree of thefts, victimizing three local farmers - Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Bean (Michael Gambon - who begin to hunt down his family - his wife, Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep); his son, Ash (Jason Schwartzman), and nephew, Kristofferson Silverfox (Wes’s brother, Eric Chase Anderson) - and ultimately his community in retaliation for stealing from them. Along the way, Mr. Fox must learn that his lifestyle and behavior has deeper ripples and longer-lasting consequences than just those that apply to him. Featuring several memorable cameos from the likes of Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, and several others, FANTASTIC MR. FOX is Anderson’s first endeavor into stop-motion, and the countdown crew talk all about how his filmmaking sensibilities translate to the new medium, how well the ensemble voice cast fits their roles, and whether Roald Dahl’s timeless children’s book is well-suited for Anderson’s storytelling.