Could There Be A ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ Spin-Off Comic Book One Day?

Don’t look for another film, but Wes Anderson says a comic-book could be born out of “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”

We barely even remember it — didn’t leave much of an impression — but within the movie there’s a comic-book called “White Cape” that the kid fox characters (voiced by Jason Schwartzman and Eric Anderson) read and apparently so much detail went into those comics the idea of a spin-off came up.

“I had an idea for this costume for this [Schwartzman] character and it included him wearing this cape,” he told MTV News. “He’s trying to somehow be heroic, to insist that he’s a hero. Then I wanted to give him something to read — what’s he reading? With a movie like this, you can’t just find a book, you’ve got to make it because it’s going to be [tiny]. So usually we would take time and say, ‘What can we think of to go here?’ There’s a lot of opportunity to invent something. And we said, ‘Let’s say that’s where he got the cape.’ “

But maybe the storyboard artist Christian De Vita might make the idea into a comic-book spin-off. “[Christian] was very good at these kind of drawings and he became the artist that does ‘White Cape.’ We sort of made this comic book series. He has posters and we have some pages. We didn’t ever figure out any full stories, but in fact he wants to do some ‘White Cape’ comics now. So maybe we will be developing that property.”

“Presented by Wes Anderson” ala what Tim Burton does with his animated films (for all we know he does that with comic-books too)? We could see that.