Jarvis Cocker to compose for Wes Anderson's Fox

It's been 30 years since Jarvis Cocker formed Britpop should-have-been-a-sensation Pulp, seven since the band broke up, three since he appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as the lead singer of wizard band, The Weird Sisters, two since he entered his solo career phase with Jarvis. The man is unquenchable.

Good thing, too, because his recent flirtations with retirement scared the bejeezus out of us. After all, had he disappeared from the music-making realm, he would not be writing music for Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's wonderful children's book The Fantastic Mr. Fox. As Cocker told TimeOut Chicago, he's penned "three, four songs, and some that might become bits of the score."

The Cocker news gives increasing marginal returns for the big-screen debut of Fantastic Mr. Fox, Dahl's Robin Hood-esque tale of a fox who leads several burrowed animal families out of fear and hunger through audacious and organized stealing from three evil farmers. And with voices by George Clooney as Mr. Fox and Cate Blanchett as Mrs. Fox (along with Anderson-ensemble regulars Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Anjelica Houston), the wait for expected release on Nov. 6, 2009 is becoming almost unbearable.

Related links:
Fanastic Mr. Fox on IMDb
Jarvis Cocker on MySpace
Feature: Going Deep With Wes Anderson

Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.