Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox will open The Times BFI London Film Festival in October.
The screening will be the world premiere of the movie, which is the first animated feature film Anderson has made, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The festival, now in its 53rd edition, runs Oct. 14-29.
Anderson wrote the film with Noah Baumbach, adapting the children’s story by Roald Dahl of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fame. It features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe and Owen Wilson.
The film is set to debut in the United Kingdom in October, followed by a U.S. release
in November.
