Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson’s latest offering is set in the 50s in a fictional desert town named Asteroid City, the site of a US government observatory. It’s also the venue for the annual Junior Stargazer convention, where teen inventors are celebrated, although, in this particular year, an unexpected otherworldly event disrupts the proceedings.

Wes Anderson’s love letter to French cinema and homage to print journalism comes in the form of his upcoming film, The French Dispatch, in which he has recruited the Anderson ensemble of usual suspects including Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Owen Wilson, and Bob Balaban, and has added some new faces to his well-worn troupe, including Alex Lawther, Timothée Chalamet, Lea Seydoux and Elisabeth Moss. At the New York Film Festival, the esteemed writer-director-producer joined some of his cast via Zoom from Cinchón, Spain, on the outskirts of Madrid, where he is shooting Asteroid City to discuss this much-anticipated new film.