The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Jarvis Cocker

The official trailer for the The Fantastic Mr. Fox came out yesterday and I am actually looking forward to seeing this film!

There are the obvious reasons: it’s directed by wes anderson; it casts the always-charming anderson entourage such as bill murray, jason schwartzman, owen wilson, etc; it’s stop-motion animated, which is a refreshing respite from the tyranny of CGI; and it’s adapted from a roald dahl story by the same name.

but even more awesome than all of this is that jarvis cocker plays the voice of petey and even wrote and performed a couple of songs for the soundtrack. jarvis cocker has done a lot: he was the frontman of Pulp, a seminal band that figured heavily in the britpop movement; he bum rushed the stage during an Michael Jackson performance at the ‘96 BRIT awards resulting in his arrest; and he was the object of my intense longing for about the first half of my 20s. THAT’S A HELL OF A LOT TO DO IN A LIFETIME! apparently he even narrated a good portion of The Fantastic Mr. Fox until it was cut due to test audience’s inability to understand his Sheffield accent. (that’s going to be our loss, you shitty focus group viewers. take it to your graves!)

The Fantastic Mr. Fox comes out in November, but if we’re lucky, cocker’s tracks will surface well beforehand.