As we noted in one of our fall film predix pieces, Wes Anderson's fifth feature "The Darjeeling Limited" went to the Venice film festival instead of the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007, but that's probably because 'Limited' was relatively artsier than Anderson's usual fare.
Could the same thing happened for his upcoming animated picture, "Fantastic Mr.Fox," starring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and many more Anderson semi-regulars like Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Willem Dafoe.
The translation is poor, but this Italian film blog, seems to be pretty certain that Anderson's film is going to appear.
We had it rumored more than two months ago, and here is plain the truth. We are talking about the participation of Fantastic Mr. Fox, new film of Wes Anderson, to Venice 66.Apparently the President of 20th Century Fox Italy, Osvaldo De Santis, also inadvertently leaked that Mia Nair's "Amelia," might be presented at the Festival of Rome (both are Fox Searchlight films so maybe this is all starting to make sense; surely in Italy they don't delineate between Fox proper and Fox indie)
File under rumor for now if you want, but it does sound plausible. "Fantastic Mr. Fox" hits theaters in Italy on November 27 and November 13 in the U.S. The 2009 Venice Film Festival runs September 2nd to 12th 2009.
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Ideally when you have a pic like Mr.Fox you'd want to have it compete for a Bear, a Palme or in this case, a Lion. Sounds logical. Venice loves animation. Venice invited Darjeeling. It might go head to head in the comp with Chomet's The Illusionist. File under: most probable.
The question really is if Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr Fox" debuts at The Venice Film Festival, does anyone want to see it? Based on the downhill trajectory of Anderson's career we could be in for a travesty of a film.
@cinemaddog. Glad somebody said it.
do any of you think Wes Anderson can go back to his old style after this? I'd like to see him heading into some new territory after this film.
Having seen this movie, I can say it's Anderson's least successful film, and basically exactly what you'd expect from an animated/stop motion Wes Anderson film - lots of music (less creative this time around), yellow title cards, and the typical Anderson rapid fire dialogue, only this time coming out of the mouths of furry woodland creatures. It's almost a kids film, but there's blood and allusions to sex. It's not really a bad film, just kind of a generic one, and the stop motion, though kinda charming for being so organic, is a very limiting medium in terms of a characters expression (at least the way Anderson uses it).
I'd like to see him heading into some new territory after this film.
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