The poster released at that time is so on-brand for an Anderson film it hurts a little. See exclusive photos from the film: /tt圜dFVXqI- The New Yorker February 11, 2020 Wes Anderson’s upcoming movie, “The French Dispatch,” is about a fictional weekly magazine that looks an awful lot like-and was, in fact, inspired by-The New Yorker. In February 2020 the first set of exclusive photos debuted in, of all places, The New Yorker. A few months later in January 2020 a release date in July of that year was announced. Plot details were revealed in September 2019 at the same time Fox Searchlight announced it had acquired the film. The casting of Tilda Swinton and Mathieu Amalric was announced at that time with most of the rest of the principle cast joining in the last months of 2018. Initial news about the movie came in mid-2018, with initial reports saying Anderson was developing a musical comedy set in France. Playing those contributors are Anderson regulars like Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Angelica Huston, Edward Norton and others, with Elisabeth Moss, Léa Seydoux, Timothée Chalamet and others joining in the highly-stylized hijinks as well. (Bill Murray), the periodical has a number of writers, illustrators, photographers and writers, each of whom are followed in their own sub-stories. Now he brings those themes to the fore with what’s been described by him and others as “a love letter” to journalists and magazine writers.Īt the center of the story is The French Dispatch, a magazine modeled after The New Yorker. Playwrights abound in his films and characters are always journaling, sending cables or handwritten letters or writing books about their experiences. (Both of those movies also star Timothée Chalamet, which in and of itself is…wow…)Īnderson’s films have always carried highly literary themes. Dune’s Denis Villeneuve creates stark, massively scaled backdrops for the characters to perform within, while Wes Anderson is known for creating detailed, symmetrical dollhouse rooms that are just as quirky and slightly dingy as the characters inhabiting them. There’s been a startling – and disappointing – lack of hot takes about how The French Dispatch is opening the same weekend as Dune means a showdown between two filmmakers who, unlike many assigned that title by studio marketing departments, can truly be called visionary.
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