Film Friday: The Phoenician Scheme. Directed by Wes Anderson.

 

source: IMDb

I have been out of the loop for a bit on Wed Anderson and so I completely missed the news on the release of his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme. Having thoroughly enjoyed "Asteroid City", I'm looking forward to seeing this out once it comes out in Japan (In September 🫠). 

"Industrialist and arms dealer Anatole “Zsa-Zsa” Korda narrowly avoids the latest in a succession of assassination attempts when his plane is sabotaged by unknown assailants. He briefly passes into the afterlife where his virtue is being weighed by a council of existential beings." - Wikipedia

Early reviews are positive and one can't really expect anything less than a good time from such a stacked cast list.

Cast:

Benicio del Toro

Mia Threapleton

Michael Cera

Riz Ahmed

Tom Hanks

Bryan Cranston

Mathieu Amalric

Richard Ayoade

Jeffrey Wright

Scarlett Johansson

Benedict Cumberbatch

Rupert Friend

Hope Davis

The film premiers in the US on the 30th of May.