Paris-based auteur Wes Anderson filmed his sci-fi comedy “Asteroid City” in Spain during the pandemic in 2021, but it embraced a 1955 American milieu.
The well-reviewed movie offers Anderson’s usual sprawling ensemble — Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Bryan Cranston, Tom Hanks, Steve Carell, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Ed Norton, Adrien Brody, and more — but it’s not the actors who will pop up with Oscar nominations.
No one gets enough individual screen time.Like Anderson’s most-lauded “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, “Asteroid City” will likely clean up with the crafts, and possibly, like “Moonrise Kingdom”, also nab a nod for Original Screenplay.Written by Anderson and long-time screenwriting partner Roman Coppola, “Asteroid City” stars Schwartzman as avuncular writer Augie Steenbeck, typewriter and pipe in tow.
He is bringing his whiz-kid scientist son Woodrow (“Eighth Grade” standout Jake Ryan) and three daughters to the Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in the New Mexico desert,…
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