The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature-length film and was released in the United States on December 25, 2004. It was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around Naples, Ponza, and the Italian Riviera. The film stars Bill Murray as the eponymous Steve Zissou, an eccentric oceanographer who sets out to exact revenge on the "jaguar shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French
Henry Selick the Giant Peach", his live-action/stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book. The innovative film received widespread critical acclaim ("Time" Magazine's Richard Schickel said it was even better than the book), and it won the top prize for an animated feature at the Annecy Film Festival in 1997, despite low box-office receipts. Selick's third feature was "Monkeybone", a live action/stop-motion adaptation of an underground comic. The film was a flop both commercially and critically. After developing stop-motion animation on Wes Anderson's feature "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Selick joined the Portland, Oregon-based animation studio LAIKA in mid-2004 as supervising