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Bill Mur­ray is play­ing a dog in Wes Anderson’s next film

07 Dec 2015

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The long­time col­lab­o­ra­tors will team up on a stop-motion ani­ma­tion in the vein of Fan­tas­tic Mr Fox.

On Sun­day 5 Decem­ber last year while receiv­ing a life­time achieve­ment award at the Mar­rakech Film Fes­ti­val, Bill Mur­ray revealed that he’s set to appear in Wes Anderson’s unti­tled stop-motion ani­ma­tion project, which is due some­time in 2017.

With­out giv­ing much away, Mur­ray told a press con­fer­ence that the film will be a stop-motion ani­mat­ed fea­ture inspired by a Japan­ese folk tale. And also that he’ll be play­ing a dog.

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Although he didn’t spec­i­fy his character’s breed, we’re will­ing to spec­u­late it’ll be a Shar Pei or some­thing sim­i­lar­ly soft and cud­dly. No oth­er details have been revealed just yet, but we do know that Bryan Cranston, Jeff Gold­blum, Bob Bal­a­ban, Edward Nor­ton are also set to star. Woof.

**Update 28 Octo­ber, 2016**

Wes Ander­son has revealed in a recent inter­view with GQ that pro­duc­tion is under­way: ​“I’ve got an ani­mat­ed movie I’m doing that’s hap­pen­ing across the room from me right now. So I can see a long list of emails from peo­ple on the set whom I now need to address.” There’s still noth­ing avail­able about the plot, but even at this ear­ly stage we’re pret­ty excit­ed to see what Wes has up his sleeve.

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