The greatest modern actor ^TM is set to star with the greatest modern actress ^TM for the greatest modern director’s ^{(bored doing that now)} adaptation of a book by the greatest modern children’s writer ^{(enough already)} , which is probably cause to get excited, we rꦦeckoꦆn.

Yes, George Cl🌄ooney and Cate Blanchett are in final negotiations to star in Wes Anderson’s stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox, the▨ brilliant tale of one fox’s attempts to outwit three dimwitted farmers to save his family from the chop.

George will be chuckling into a microphone to ꦕvoice Mr Fox, while Cate will be brightening up a recording booth to provide vocals for Fox’s wife.

Both stars appeared together in The Good German, of cours🀅e, but we thi♈nk more people will probably want to go and see Fox.

But they’ll have a bit of a wait. Wes haꦡs to finish editing his latest quirk-fest The Darjeeling Ltd, starring Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman and other people without ‘man’ in their names, before he gets started on his animated opus.

The 😼Fantastic Mr Fox will be made in London, likeꦬ all the best films.