Director: Wes Anderson

Writer: Roald Dahl (Novel), Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach (Screenplay)

—

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop motion animated film based on Roald Dahl’s book of the same name, it will be released on November 13, 2009.

—

The story is about a fox named Mr Fox (George Clooney). At night, he steals chickens, ducks, and turkeys from wealthy farmers to feed his family. The farmers are tiered of this and try everything to get rid of him.

—

Determined to catch him, the farmers use spades and shovels to dig their way into the foxes’ home, but Mr and Mrs Fox (Meryl Streep) and their four children dig a tunnel deeper into the ground and escape. The farmers decide to play a waiting game, keeping watch on the entrance to the fox hole with shotguns ready, while their men patrol the area to make sure the foxes don’t escape.

—

After days of starving, Mr Fox comes up with a plan. He and his children dig further on and end up in one of the farmers chicken house. There they steal some chickens and leave without any sign of them ever being there……

View the Trailer

—

Released dates

—

Russia       22 October 2009

Ukraine     22 October 2009

UK     23 October 2009

Bulgaria     6 November 2009

Malaysia     12 November 2009

Finland     13 November 2009

USA     13 November 2009

Germany     19 November 2009

Romania     20 November 2009

Italy     27 November 2009

Norway     27 November 2009

Netherlands     3 December 2009

Brazil     4 December 2009

Belgium     23 December 2009

France     23 December 2009

Argentina     7 January 2010

Australia     7 January 2010