Watch the Official Trailer for Wes Anderson's Film 'Asteroid City'
Starring Maya Hawke, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson and more.
UPDATE (March 29, 2023): Following much anticipation, Focus Features has finally revealed the official trailer of Wes Anderson‘s upcoming movie titled Asteroid City.
Set in a fictional American desert town in the 1950s, the comedy title — written by Anderson and Roman Coppola of The French Dispatch — covers characters at a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention, where chaos unfolds. The film boasts a star-studded cast, with names including Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Hong Chau and Scarlett Johansson, as well as Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Grace Edwards, Aristou Meehan, Sophia Lillis, Ethan Lee, Jeff Goldblum and Rita Wilson.
Watch the trailer above. Asteroid City is due for a theatrical release on June 16 followed by a wider release on June 23, while it is expected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
ORIGINAL STORY (December 8, 2022): Wes Anderson’s new movie, which was originally scheduled to be shot in Rome and was later moved to Spain for filming, finally has a theatrical release date.
Titled Asteroid City, the film is set in a fictional desert town in 1955. The synopsis describes the movie to follow “the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition” which “is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.”
Like most of Anderson’s projects, Asteroid City features a star-studded cast, including Tilda Swinton, Margot Robbie, Maya Hawke, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeff Goldblum, Steve Carell, Willem Dafoe and more. The movie was shot in 2021 in Chinchón, a village near Madrid, where the crew built sets for the movie.
The release joins Anderson’s lineup of cult-loved movies, with the most recent one being The French Dispatch starring Timothée Chalamet.
Asteroid City will hit theaters in the U.S. on June 16, 2023, ahead of its global release on June 23, 2023.
