The tidbit at hand pushes all the right buttons so hard it is almost bordering on a “indie taste” parody. I am just going to copy and paste this in (and I feel fine since they did it to us last week) but here is something to look forward to:

The joke goes that we indie rock types only get out to the movies when there’s an Anderson (either one) or a coupla Coen brothers attached to the flick. However much truth there is in that statement, we can all agree that Wes Anderson’s forthcoming stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox is not one to miss.

Especially now that Jarvis Cocker has signed on to lend a hand with the film’s soundtrack. In an interview with Time Out Chicago (conducted by former Pitchfork contributor Brent DiCrescenzo), Jarvis reveals that he’s written “three, four songs, and some of that might become bits of the score” for the film.
Cocker got on the subject following a line of questioning about his skepticism towards the Disney corporation, which he explored in the song “Disney Time” from his debut LP. “If you criticize Disney,” Cocker points out, “the next step is ‘do better.’ I get the chance to do it myself and corrupt young minds.” This can only end well.

IMDB also uncovers that the voices in the movie will belong to Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney and Anjelica Houston.

To sum up:
DAHL+ANDERSON+COCKER+MURRAY+SCHWARTZMAN+BLANCHETT+CLOONEY+HOUSTON
= excitement of proportions that may cause even the most jaded of your out there to well, be excited.

Hopefully the music is half as good as this:

(which, unrelatedly, just led me TO THIS on youtube!!!!!!)

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