

The French Dispatch a 12-minute behind-the-scenes featurette about the making of the film. Anderson wrote and directed the film from a story he developed with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Hugo Guinness.Īnderson, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson are serving as producers while Searchlight Pictures will distribute the film produced and co-financed by Indian Paintbrush. Judging by its trailer, The French Dispatch ticks off all of these boxes.
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“The French Dispatch,” or the full title “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun,” brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional, 20th-century French city. But the film also features appearances by (deep breath) Liev Schreiber, Elisabeth Moss, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Lois Smith, Saoirse Ronan, Christoph Waltz, Cécile de France, Guillaume Gallienne, Jason Schwartzman, Tony Revolori, Rupert Friend, Henry Winkler, Bob Balaban, Hippolyte Girardot and Angelica Huston.Īlso Read: Searchlight Closes Worldwide Rights Deal for Rebecca Hall Thriller 'The Night House' Liebling, Adrien Brody, as an art dealer modeled on Lord Duveen and Owen Wilson as a writer inspired by Joseph Mitchell.īenicio del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Mathieu Amalric and Stephen Park round out the principal cast.
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The magazine’s editor, Arthur Howitzer Jr., transformed a series of travel columns into a weekly magazine covering world politics, arts and human-interest pieces. The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city.

The film is described as a love letter to journalists set in the 20th-century in an outpost of an American newspaper in France. He leads a gigantic cast that also includes Jeffrey Wright, playing a version of James Baldwin mixed with A.J. The French Dispatch follows the efforts of a team of journalists at a magazine of the same name. Anderson’s last two films debuted at the Berlin Film Festival, but French Dispatch won’t be screening there. The first trailer for Wes Anderson’s 10th feature, “The French Dispatch,” reveals that the film is about a fictional American magazine in a French city, but it’s inspired by and loaded with references to the history of The New Yorker magazine.īill Murray plays the editor of the magazine The French Dispatch, Arthur Howitzer, Jr., a character inspired by The New Yorker’s founding editor Harold Ross. Anderson hasn’t been to Cannes since Moonrise Kingdom opened the 2012 edition.
