Age of The Nerd
The March 23rd release of Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion film Isle of Dogs is quickly approaching. The marketing via Fox Searchlight has been making the rounds and it is quite unique. This five-minute clip features various actors talking about their characters and the process of making the film animated as their on-screen counterparts. This is a beautiful and interesting way to promote a movie by adding depth to what can often feel like generic studio interviews.
Isle of Dogs is Wes Anderson’s followup to the 2014 hit The Grand Budapest Hotel. This marks the second time Anderson has dabbled in the stop-motion world, after 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. Like him or not, Anderson has delivered a unique feel and vision to his films since his 1996 debut Bottle Rocket.
The casts of Anderson’s films are always as extensive as they are prestigious, and Dogs is no exception. There’s nothing like hearing Wes Anderson dialogue, said by Bill Murray, as a stop-motion animal. It will never get old.
Here’s the Isle of Dogs cast interviews via Fox Searchlight:
[su_youtube url=”https://youtu.be/BOKzXQdA4Nw”]The official plot synopsis:
ISLE OF DOGS tells the story of ATARI KOBAYASHI, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.
Isle of Dogs stars Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunicki Nomura, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Akira Ito, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Mari Katsuki, Fisher Stevens, Nijiro Murakami, Liev Schreiber, and Courtney B. Vance.
