Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’ confirms 2020 release
Wes Anderson at the 64rd Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin on Feb. 6, 2014. Image: AFP/Johannes Eisele via AFP Relaxnews
Searchlight Pictures has confirmed a release date for Wes Anderson’s upcoming blockbuster “The French Dispatch”, with the film slated for its debut this July.
The project — full title: “The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun” — will bow in theaters on July 24, and brings to life a collection of short stories of the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional, 20th-century French city.
Written and directed by Anderson, the flick boasts a stellar cast that includes Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray and Owen Wilson.
Searchlight and Anderson have been longtime collaborators, however, the director has also developed this latest story with Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Hugo Guinness. RGA
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