FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Written by
Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach
March 4, 2007
EXT. WOODS. DAY
An apple tree stands alone at the top of a hill. A handsome
fox dressed in an Edwardian-style navy velvet suit leans
against it with his arms folded and his legs crossed, chewing
on a reed of wild grass. He holds an apple core in his paw.
He spits out a seed. He looks off across a meadow that
descends into the valley below.
A female fox strides briskly up the hill. Her coat is a
paler, especially beautiful shade of fox-red, and she wears
men's trousers and a dark tunic. Fox says as she approaches:FOX
What'd the doctor say?MRS. FOX
Nothing. Supposedly, it's just a twenty-
four hour bug. He gave me some pills.FOX
(REASSURINGLY)