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Asteroid City plot details revealed ! The cast list is exactly who you'd expect—save one—plus Tom Hanks and Steve Carrell. Details have dribbled out over the last year: the name, the set, the cast, and leaked photos.
OK, now you've got me thinking about Wes Anderson directing an Astro City adaptation and I am surprised at how much that delights me.
I mean, if I was producing just a single Astro City film, I probably wouldn't give it to Wes Anderson. But in my fantasy world where they do an Astro City TV series where each episode has a different director given full creative freedom, the Wes Anderson episode would be a delightful bridge between the Barry Jenkins episode and the Lonely Planet episode.
posted by yankeefog at 1:40 AM on July 22, 2022
I mean, if I was producing just a single Astro City film, I probably wouldn't give it to Wes Anderson. But in my fantasy world where they do an Astro City TV series where each episode has a different director given full creative freedom, the Wes Anderson episode would be a delightful bridge between the Barry Jenkins episode and the Lonely Planet episode.
posted by yankeefog at 1:40 AM on July 22, 2022
The star-studded cast features a mix of newcomers and familiar faces to Anderson’s cinematic universe, including Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia Lillis, Ethan Lee, Jeff Goldblum and Rita Wilson.
It says a lot about a director, both professionally and personally, when seemingly everyone in Hollywood wants to be in your films.
posted by gwint at 1:50 AM on July 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
It says a lot about a director, both professionally and personally, when seemingly everyone in Hollywood wants to be in your films.
posted by gwint at 1:50 AM on July 22, 2022 [3 favorites]
I was already going to see it in the theater but that cast is insane.
posted by octothorpe at 4:25 AM on July 22, 2022
posted by octothorpe at 4:25 AM on July 22, 2022
Ahh, Steve Carell replaced Bill Murray who was cut due to COVID.
posted by bbrown at 6:01 PM on July 22, 2022
posted by bbrown at 6:01 PM on July 22, 2022
Not keeping up on the cool film gossip I saw the title and thought a new science fiction movie that might be set on an actual asteroid...
posted by sammyo at 4:37 PM on July 26, 2022
posted by sammyo at 4:37 PM on July 26, 2022
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