Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox: The Official screenplay

by Wes Anderson, Roald Dahl

Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own ...Releasing October 2009, Wes Anderson and Twentieth Century Fox bring to life Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr Fox" in breathtaking stop-motion animation. With a cast that includes George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray, this film is guaranteed to delight Dahl fans of every age.

167 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Wesley Wales Anderson is an American director, writer, and producer of features, short films and commercials. He was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums.

Reviews

[Dane Cobain · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m sure this is great and all if you liked the movie, but I haven’t seen it and I have read the book maybe a half dozen times. Because of that, I just took issue with the fact that they only used the concept and didn’t even try to base the actual story line of the movie on the book.

It also annoyed me that the characters kept cussing, literally. They’d repeatedly say things like, “Oh cuss, pass me that cussing spanner, will you?” I understand that they had to make it kid-friendly, but they could have just bypassed it completely instead of turning it into a cringe-fest.

All in all, I wouldn’t recommend reading this one unless you have some good reason for reading it. Otherwise, it’s kind of a waste of time, and I almost regret picking it up. Almost a DNF.