A launch date has been introduced for director Wes Anderson’s subsequent movie Asteroid Metropolis.
Starring Tom Hanks, Steve Carell and Margot Robbie, the romantic comedy drama is described as a “poetic meditation on the which means of life”.
The movie takes place in a fictional American desert city in 1955 as college students and fogeys collect for a junior stargazer conference that’s disrupted by world-changing occasions. Asteroid Metropolis’s story is co-written by Anderson and Roman Coppola.
The ensemble solid options quite a few Anderson’s frequent collaborators together with Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody.
Others within the solid embrace Rupert Pal, Scarlett Johansson, Hope Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffrey Wright, Liev Schreiber, Tony Revolori, Matt Dillon, Sophia Lillis, Steve Park, Maya Hawke, Fisher Stevens, Ethan Josh Lee, Hong Chau and Rita Wilson.
Jarvis Cocker, who has contributed to the movie’s soundtrack with Richard Hawley, can be set to have a cameo role as a cowboy.
What’s the launch date for Asteroid Metropolis?
Asteroid Metropolis may have a restricted run in cinemas on June 16, 2023 within the US earlier than it’s launched extensively on June 23. A UK launch date has but to be confirmed.
The movie is Anderson’s follow-up to 2021’s The French Dispatch, which starred Benicio del Toro and Timothée Chalamet.
Together with Asteroid Metropolis, Anderson is creating an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Story Of Henry Sugar, which is about to be launched on Netflix in 2023. It will likely be the director’s second Dahl adaptation after his 2009 movie Unbelievable Mr. Fox.
In a four-star evaluate of The French Dispatch, NME wrote: “It’s been seven years since Anderson’s final reside motion film, and The French Dispatch might be his funniest work since 2012’s Moonrise Kingdom.”