Writer/director Wes Anderson is currently at the Cannes Film Festival promoting his latest effort, “The Phoenician Scheme,” and has revealed some minor tidbits about another mysterious upcoming project, including who is involved with it.
While chatting at a Cannes presser (via Deadline), the filmmaker revealed he would be collaborating with longtime creative partner Roman Coppola and that it’ll also have Richard Ayoade‘s participation. Revealing it will have “a darkness” to it, stopping short of revealing any major details (Anderson normally operates in this secretive way on gestating films/projects).
Coppola has been a longtime contributor to Anderson’s scripts on theatrical feature releases such as “The Darjeeling Limited,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Isle of Dogs,” “The French Dispatch,” “Asteroid City,” and the aforementioned “The Phoenician Scheme” along with producing Wes Anderson’s short film “Castello Cavalcanti” starring Jason Schwartzman (Coppola’s cousin).
However, it isn’t clear if Ayoade would be simply a featured actor (appeared in “The Phoenician Scheme,” “Henry Sugar” and “The French Dispatch”) or also helping out on the creative side of things as he’s a filmmaker in his own right with the fantastic satirical coming-of-age rom-com “Submarine,” and the “The Double.”
Whatever the story is about, I think we can safely assume that it’ll have Anderson’s brand of quirkiness with the elaborate detail to production design and costuming that we’ve come to expect from the director. That, alongside a great group of talent among its cast.
You can read The Playlist’s Cannes review for “The Phoenician Scheme” right here, and it hits theaters May 30, thanks to a release by Focus Features.
Stay tuned as more information reveals itself to us about this new Wes Anderson project.
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