Wes Anderson has revealed that his next feature film project will be simpler in terms of its production scale and with a more compact cast, after his ensemble works The French Dispatch and Asteroid City. “I have a script that we wrote right before the strike… It’s simple with three characters and totally linear and it’s, I wouldn’t say traditional because it’s very weird, but it’s more straightforward,” he said.
The director teased the details in a packed masterclass at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, which he is attending this year with his medium-length Roald Dahl adaptation, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.
Hundreds of mainly young fans queued around the block to get into event at which Anderson shared his many influences from directors like Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle to Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.(WATCH) Wes Anderson fans queue for Venice masterclass #Venezia80 pic.twitter.com/t2HXMu0Qkb Answering a question on how to build confidence from an aspiring young filmmaker in the room, Anderson shared his experiences on his debut 1996 film Bottle Rocket and its difficult first screening. “We were making my little film… as an independent little thing, we were in Texas, not in New York, with a few thousand dollars – four – we were inching away, 16mm, black-and-white, that route, then the $4,000 was done, so were trying to raise $400,000 but we couldn’t,” he recalled.
He recalled how late Texas filmmaker L.M. Kit Carson had come on board to help them to find backers, when The Simpsons producers James L.
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