


Filled with photos, script pages, storyboards, and interviews with cast and crew, this book is a delightful and intriguing peek at the magic that happens as the filmmakers bring to life one of children's literature's most beloved characters: the outrageous, audacious, Fantastic Mr.

Fox: The Making of the Motion Picture is a family-friendly behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the film. Starring the voice talents of George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Meryl Streep (Doubt), Bill Murray (Lost in Translation), and Jason Schwartzman (Marie Antoinette), the movie is sure to please fans of the original story as well as enchant new generations. His other works for young readers include Fantastic Mr. Fox engages in a battle of survival against the bumbling and yet incredibly destructiveFarmers’ Boggis, Bunce and Bean. In it, the clever anthropomorphic paternal figure of Mr. In Fall 2009, audiences will cheer as award-winning director Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited) brings us his take on the tale: a blockbuster stop-motion animation film shot entirely in high definition. Fox is famed author Roald Dahl’s third book for children. Fox slips back into his old ways as a smart bird thief and, in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community as well. After twelve years, the Fox Family's quiet home life proves too much for Mr. One of his last such books, Matilda (1988), was adapted for film (19) and the stage ( 2010). Fox (1970 film 2009 ), Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972), The Enormous Crocodile (1978), The BFG (1982 films 19 ), and The Witches (1983 film 1990 ). Originally published in 1970, Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. His other works for young readers include Fantastic Mr.
