Might we be getting Wes Anderson‘s tackle “Meet Me in St. Louis” someday quickly?
The auteur instructed Sight and Sound that the long-lasting 1944 Vincente Minnelli movie is his “favourite musical ever made,” simply in time for the eightieth anniversary of the holiday-centric characteristic. Judy Garland, who was married to Minnelli on the time, stars because the eldest daughter of the Smith household, who’re celebrating their final Christmas of their hometown. Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, and Marjorie Primary rounded out the solid.
“It should have been a magnificently nostalgic expertise to see ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’ again in 1944,” Anderson mentioned of the musical movie. “Now it’s magnificently unique. Possibly the America it evokes solely ever fairly existed on the backlot of MGM, however, for myself, the characters and world of this film come to life like they’re residing subsequent door throughout somewhat strip of garden, snow-covered within the winter. All their minor/modest hopes and troubles really feel essential and fascinating – they usually sing! My favourite musical ever made.”
Anderson beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter that he has his eye on adapting a Charles Dickens story. The “A Christmas Carol” and “Oliver Twist” writer has a bevy of novels that Anderson might choose from.
“I really feel like the author who I want to adapt — who I don’t know if I can see the chance — is Dickens,” Anderson mentioned. “I want to do an enormous Dickens story. They’ve all been tailored. They’ve all been completed many occasions. They’re so attention-grabbing. Individuals maintain going again to them. They’re so entertaining and so complicated.”
In the meantime, Anderson has wrapped his newest unique characteristic, “The Phoenician Scheme,” which stars Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Willem Dafoe, Scarlett Johannson, Invoice Murray, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rupert Pal, Benicio del Toro, and extra. Benedict Cumberbatch leads the motion journey movie as an archaeologist who’s concerned in uncovering an historical conspiracy with harmful world implications. Bruno Delbonnel is the cinematographer on “The Phoenician Scheme,” marking the primary live-action film directed by Anderson that won’t be DP’ed by frequent collaborator Robert Yeoman.
The movie is predicted to premiere at Berlinale 2025.