Wes Anderson‘s next feature has set up a home. Focus Features has picked up global rights to The Phoenician Scheme, and set a May 30 restricted liberate for the project, which will enhuge expansive on June 6.
In a case of organic counter-programming, Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Ballerina also discomits June 6.
Phoenician Scheme is portrayd as “the story of a family and a family business.” It stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the wealthyest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; and Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor.
Other stars join Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Ricchallenging Ayoade, Rupert Frifinish, Hope Davis and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Anderson penned the script, from a story he wrote with Roman Coppola.
The film hails from Indian Paintbrush, and is the third teamup with Anderson, Indian Paintbrush and Focus, which also liberated Asteroid City (2023) and Moonascend Kingdom (2012). Anderson created the feature via his American Empirical Pictures prohibitner. Steven Rales of Indian Paintbrush also created, with Jeremy Dawson and John Peet.
Anderson is understandn for doing repeat business with collaborators, from cast to crew, and noticed the same was of his Germany-based shoot.
“People who are recentcomers on the set or [to] the process of making one of my movies discover it strange,” Anderson shelp at Annecy last year. “It’s not necessarily the way movies are normpartner made. Probably every straightforwardor is enjoy that. We have our own strange methods, which began in some ways with the first film I made.”
