Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.The French Dispatch isn’t even half the full title of the movie.
On screen, it’s The French Dispatch of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun. Wes Anderson’s latest film is a collection of short stories, serving as examples of the stories published in the Dispatch.In the film, the magazine ceases publication upon the death of the editor, Arthur Howitzer, Jr. (Bill Murray).
As the staff prepares his obituary, some highlights of the stories he published come to life on screen.Herbsaint Sazerac (Owen Wilson) visits the underbelly of Ennui-sur Blasé on bicycle.
J.K.L. Berensen (Tilda Swinton) writes about prisoner and artist Moses Rosenthaler (Benicio Del Toro), whose muse is his guard, Simone (Léa Seydoux).
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