A friendly anthropomorphic fox teams with an optimistic fursuiting charity worker and his oddball friends to prove his humanity and earn British citizenship, whilst evading an elitist minister's wrath. PADDINGTON meets THE OUTLAWS. 

SYNOPSIS:

2030 England. For five long years, the country recovers from Vulpis-21, aka ‘vulpine flu’.

When activist turned Salford MP JUSTIN CUDDLY succumbed as Patient Zero, the North was quarantined from the South by Project North Lockdown.

But things are getting ugly-cute, thanks to one extraordinary vulpine: FOX-21.

Rendered anthropomorphic by a freak incident with a vaccine and brain implant, Fox-21 can walk upright, understand English, and loves to learn.

Brilliant professor AKILAH MUNMI and civil servant ROBERT ROLO-BLAKE prepare to display their revolutionary project and vaccine to the government. What could go wrong?

Well…everything.

Accidentally herded from London to Salford, Fox-21 inadvertently causes chaos with humble fursuiting charity worker DANNY WALKER, destroying the re-election rally of pompous Independent MP KINGSLEY MESSER, who leads Parliament in crusading against ‘undesirables’...and just so happens to be Danny's estranged father.

With Fox-21, Danny, and reluctant put-upon schoolmate MENA HAWKINS facing legal trouble in a packed courtroom, Akilah and Robert play their hand: Justin Cuddly’s concealed Hunting Act amendment, granting British citizenship to any animal proving humanity via The Humanity Trials.

Appointing his four human allies as guardians, Fox-21 takes Danny’s surname to be rechristened: Fox Walker.

Bound together, the crew endure many misadventures to complete the Trials, thwart Messer, and secure Fox’s citizenship. In the process, this friendly fox may just inspire the crew to overcome their own glaring faults, and bring Danny closure with his villainous absent father...

Inspired by post-COVID mania, FOX WALKER blends dynamic live-action and animatronics to parody puppetry-driven children’s TV. With violent slapstick, sci-fi logic and adult farce, this isn’t Sesame Street or Basil Brush; this is Paddington on speed. An undercurrent of biting satire skewers modern British sentiments: from politicians to police, conspiracy theorists to furries, nothing is safe.

But Fox Walker isn’t lacking emotional stakes: beneath the fur and farce lie timely themes of British identity, class warfare, discrimination and, above all, finding unity in our differences.