REVIEW

Murray, Chalamet, McDormand, Swinton, Moss, and Many Many More Assemble for Wes Anderson’s ‘THE FRENCH DISPATCH’ Trailer

By Matt Oakes · February 12, 2020

Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Timothee Chalamet, Frances McDormand, Benecio del Toro, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Elisabeth Moss, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Owen Wilson, Henry Winkler, Rupert Friend, Jeffrey Wright, Tony Revolori. When you have Wes Anderson behind the camera, you know the cast is gonna be God-status but my lord is The French Dispatch absolutely stacked. This could quite honestly go down in history as one of the very best casts in history and they’ve joined Anderson to tell the tale of a fictional American newspaper in a fictional French city.

Right from the onset, the first trailer for The French Dispatch establishes that classic prim, colorful and symmetrical Anderson aesthetic and then blows the screen up with just about every famous face you know, including a good many new additions to his exponentially growing regular ensemble. The movie (which apparently is not a musical after all) is said to be Anderson’s love letter to journalism. On the heels of Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch is Anderson’s first live-action film since 2014’s acclaimed Grand Budapest Hotel and the tenth overall film for the Texan-born auteur.

Take a look at the trailer yourself and see if you think what Anderson is cooking up will rank among his best work:

The official synopsis reads: “The film is a love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th Century French city and brings to life a collection of stories published in ‘The French Dispatch’ magazine.”

Searchlight Pictures will release The French Dispatch on July 24, 2020 but the film will likely see its world premiere at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival.