Deadline’s Read the Screenplay collection spotlighting the 12 months’s most talked-about scripts continues with Asteroid City, Wes Anderson‘s latest film that had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Anderson penned the script together with his frequent collaborator Roman Coppola after the 2 beforehand teamed on the Anderson-directed The Darjeeling Limited, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch and Moonrise Kingdom, the latter of which scored the pair an Original Screenplay Oscar nom in 2023.
The plot is ready in 1955 and revolves across the American Southwest desert city of Asteroid City (inhabitants: 87), whose famed attraction is a huge meteor crater and observatory. The one-telephone-booth city is enjoying host to the navy and astronomers honoring 5 Junior Stargazers with awards for his or her scientific innovations. It’s additionally the weekend celebrating Asteroid Day, commemorating September 27, 3007 BC, when that Arid Plains meteorite made affect.
It’s additionally the weekend an alien seems, after which the city goes into lockdown and the Army makes an attempt to cowl up the story. But the Junior Stargazers have a plan to get the phrase to the surface world anyway.
That’s the plot of the story, anyway, behind the actual story, which is that Asteroid City is a play in preproduction in New York, with the lives of the actors enjoying out concurrently to the motion within the desert. Somehow in the midst of all of it is the dissection of the massive and the small, with reference factors starting from Sam Shepard and the Cold War to Elia Kazan and theater, and the American West.
Anderson regulars Jason Schwartzman (he performs a just lately widowed, grieving father of three struggle photgrapher; Anderson stated the half was written particularly for him to play), Scarlett Johansson, Jeffery Wright, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Tony Revolori, Liev Schreiber, Adrien Brody and Bryan Cranston star together with Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, Maya Hawke, Rupert Friend and Stephen Park.
The pic hit U.S. theaters and June by way of Focus Features and has grossed $53.8 million on the world field workplace.
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