Focus Features showed off footage for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme at CinemaCon.
Here’s a description courtesy of Deadline:
The exclusive CinemaCon trailer shown in the room is goofy, stylized, fast-paced good fun in full Wes Anderson style. Korda names his daughter, one of his six children, as heir, not disclosing why but notifying all that he’s embarking on “the most important project of my lifetime.” There are scenes in the desert, in the luxurious family villa with brisk dialogue, funny facial hair, gunshots and an outed assassin who pops a suicide pill as Liesl says last rites.
The film will have a limited release May 30 and has been set with a wide expansion on June 6.
The film follows “the story of a family and a family business.”
It stars Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor. With: Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Anderson directed The Phoenician Scheme off a screenplay he co-wrote with his longtime collaborator Roman Coppola. Anderson and Coppola also co-wrote Asteroid City and Moonrise Kingdom together.






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