Isle of Dogs is an upcoming American stop-motion animated dystopian adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Produced by Indian Paintbrush, the film will feature an ensemble voice cast consisting of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Harvey Keitel, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, Akira Takayama, F. Murray Abraham, Yojiro Noda, Frank Wood, and Yoko Ono.
It is scheduled to be released on March 23, 2018, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. It will be Fox Searchlight's first animated film since Waking Life (2001).
Set in a dystopian future Japan where dogs have been outlawed due to a "dog flu" and have been quarantined on a remote island, Isle of Dogs follows, on the titular island, five local dogs named Rex (Edward Norton), King (Bob Balaban), Duke (Jeff Goldblum), Boss (Bill Murray) and Chief (Bryan Cranston) who are fed up with their isolated existence until a boy named Atari Kobayashi (Koyu Rankin) who ventures to the island to search for his dog, Spots. Atari receives their help and they will protect him from the Japanese authorities who have come to retrieve him.
