Writer/director Wes Anderson got ready to make his new movie, The Grand Budapest Hotel, in kind of an unconventional way: by making an animated version of it before production began. The Wrap reported the news and that Anderson voiced all the characters in the animated version.
“He had, I think developed from having done Fantastic Mr. Fox, an animated version of the movie,” Jeff Goldblum, one of the film’s stars, told The Wrap. “It was a beautifully animated version of the whole movie, with all the cuts as they pretty much I think wound up to be. And he voiced all the characters. He called it animatics. I had it on my computer, you could see the whole movie.” Goldblum added, “Willem Dafoe even said to Wes, you should release this,” he reported. “You may see it on the DVD extras.”
Grand Budapest Hotel hits theaters March 7th and you can check out the trailer below:
