Wes Anderson’s new film will not be a musical, as was initially rumoured – but it will star Timothee Chalamet, and that’s a trade-off we can get behind.
IndieWire reports that Chalamet will join already confirmed cast members including usual Anderson suspects Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand, as well as Jeffrey Wright and Benicio Del Toro.
Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman are both rumoured to be on board, because why not?
The French Dispatch will be “a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in 20th-century Paris”.
No doubt Anderson will spare no effort in portraying the hard work of journalism and it won’t just be an excuse for a whole lot of symmetrical shots of typewriters.
Like this, but with a mint green typewriter, in Paris.
Also, here’s this detail from the IndieWire report:
“When asked to confirm his casting at an Amazon Studios party celebrating “Beautiful Boy,” Chalamet threw his hands in the air and laughed.”
See? The whimsy is already out of control.
Two-thirds of any given cinema full of people will probably spontaneously melt into a puddle Amelie-style the minute Chalamet appears wearing a lil fedora with a PRESS card stuck in it and starts speaking perfect French.
