Focus Features has released a new trailer for a highly anticipated Wes Anderson’s new latest outing, “Asteroid City” which will score a limited release on June 16th before expanding a week later on June 23rd.
The trailer showcases Anderson’s usual style of meticulously crafted shot compositions and high color saturation, but this time opts for a high exposure, low contrast and almost sunburnt film look that evokes 1950s postcards and artwork. That visual aesthetic will likely lead to some polarising reactions.
Though not official as yet, the film is very likely to be premiering in May at the Cannes Film Festival in the same way his “Moonrise Kingdom” and “The French Dispatch” have done in the past.
According to the official plot, set in a fictional American desert town circa 1955, the interplanetary action also unfolds among stargazing humans: “In 1955, students and parents from across the country gather for scholarly competition at a Junior Stargazer convention held in a fictional American desert town.”
The director’s next film is boasting the cast of Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Rupert Friend, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Jeff Goldblum, Fisher Stevens, Jarvis Cocker and (take a breath!), Hope Davis, Maya Hawke, Rita Wilson, Matt Dillon and Hong Chau.
Bill Murray was also due to star but, due to COVID, he ended up being replaced by Steve Carell.
Anderson wrote the film with Roman Coppola and produces it with Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson.