No surprise to see Desplat on board the new 50s set romantic comedy drama from Wes Anderson, opening this Summer. It's their 6th collaboration together. Quite a cast too. It's usually something eclectic from Desplat, when he works with Anderson. GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL bagged Desplat his first Oscar win. Should be interesting.
I quite like the retro calendar-art look of the poster. The trailer is supposedly going to be released tomorrow. A new Wes-world project always gets me enthused.
No idea if the movie is going to be good but the idea of Wes Anderson in a giant crater in the desert is sure to produce something at least interesting.
Yeah, the Wes Anderson 'schtick' is getting pretty old. I laughed a lot through GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and a few others, but it is looking a bit same old. That trailer actually reminded me of a sunnier NOPE at times. Like Woody Allen, it's a given thing and it must have a target audience and revenue return to make it bankable and worth the outlay. And I'm guessing the cast work at a vastly reduced rate to keep the overall budget in check?
-I really like the scenes of the SW desert at magic hour.
-The references to a quarantine = Wes Anderson commenting on the COVID pandemic?
-It looks like Schwartzman was planning to drop off Woodrow at the Stargazers' convention and then go to Tom Hanks' place with his daughters until his car broke down.
-Quite a lot of rusty, derelict cars in the area.
-If you're going to visit the crater on Sundays, make sure you're there before 5pm.
-Bob Balaban is not in the credits, but it sure looks like him sitting next to Jeffrey Wright's General Grif Gibson.
- The meteoric space-ore is "now considered a rogue pygmy cometette."
- It looks like Liev Schreiber is the father of Aristou Meehan's Clifford. Clifford seems like he's going to be a tool.
-Maya Hawke's character is my potential favorite in the movie.
-The check for $5,000 being given to the Stargazers has a September date that has been crossed out and changed to 1 Oct. 1955.
- Some of the cottages are decorated with what appear to be cattle brands.
-I want some of them "Jam Crispies" that Hope Davis is munching on.
- I hope those country/western songs (especially "Freight Train") are in the movie too.
Great trailer! Looks to have the same spirit which infested Moonrise Kingdom: the difficulties of navigating a world that should celebrate passion and youthful invention yet is hampered by the stupid adults desperate to be miserable.
Alexandre Desplat's score is apparently influenced by John Williams's Close Encounters of the Third Kind:
"Spielberg’s first story about extraterrestrial life is out-of-this-world moviemaking, and was enormously influential on Asteroid City, both in its depiction of friendly aliens in a southwestern setting and in Alexandre Desplat’s score, which evokes composer John Williams’s iconic musical motifs."