Wes Anderson On Building ‘Asteroid City’, His Next ‘Three-Hander’ Film & Working Again With Bill Murray – Crew Call Podcast
deadline.com“I like when I’m working on something that I don’t understand,” says 7x Oscar nominated filmmaker Wes Anderson on how he cracked his new off-kilter comedic period opus, Asteroid City, which hits theaters in New York and LA this Friday.
The Focus Features release goes wide on Friday, June 23. “It’s not that you got an idea for a movie, you have an idea for two movies,” he tells Crew Call about his latest set in the 1950s –a story in a story– that straddles the backstage inner workings of Broadway actors staging a play that’s set in a desert town (the majority of the movie we’re watching).
A science fair for the youth, the Stargazer convention, is occurring in a desolate town where a Hollywood starlet (Scarlett Johansson) rolls in with her daughter and connects with a widower (Jason Schwartzman) and daughters; their car having broke down.
Meanwhile, he hasn’t told his kids their mother has died. And that’s just one of the story strands in the ensemble piece that also stars Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, Edward Norton among several others.
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