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How Wes Anderson Devised ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Crew Call Podcast At Cannes
Podcast interview with Wes Anderson about the making of his Cannes hit 'The Phoenician Scheme'
(Tristan Fewings/Getty Images Oscar winner Wes Anderson returns to Deadline’s Crew Call to shed some light on his writing process and how he came up with The Phoenician Scheme, a project he first started breaking around the time of his second Cannes premiere, 2021’s The French Dispatch. He was looking for an Anthony Quinn type to play the notorious, yet lovable European magnet, Zsa-zsa Korda, and knew the star of French Dispatch, Oscar winner Benicio del Toro, was the guy. Anderson’s third movie with Focus Features after Moonrise Kingdom and Asteroid City, hits limited NYC and LA theaters on May 30 with a wide break on June 6.
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