The Cast of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City Is Insane, Even by Wes Anderson Standards
After Wes Anderson, is there another film director on Earth who has the connections and goodwill necessary to put together a cast that requires 21 bolded names on a movie poster? Quentin Tarantino, perhaps, but even at his most indulgent, Tarantino has never quite gone as hard on sheer scale of an ensemble as fellow auteur Anderson. Most viewers probably would have assumed that The French Dispatch took this particular quirk to its logical zenith, but the newly released poster for the director’s upcoming Asteroid City makes it clear that Anderson can still go further. The film, which will screen at Cannes before dropping in limited release on June 16, 2023 (wide on June 23), has arguably one of the most stacked casts of any film ever assembled. On the poster alone, we get the following:
— Jason Schwartzman
— Scarlett Johansson
— Tom Hanks
— Jeffrey Wright
— Tilda Swinton
— Bryan Cranston
— Edward Norton
— Adrien Brody
— Liev Schreiber
— Hope Davis
— Stephen Park
— Rupert Friend
— Maya Hawke
— Steve Carell
— Matt Dillon
— Hong Chau
— Willem Dafoe
— Margot Robbie
— Tony Revolori
— Jake Ryan
— Jeff Goldblum
But wait, that’s only the actors who made the poster! Asteroid City also includes the likes of It stand-out Sophia Lillis, along with Fisher Stevens, Rita Wilson and Pulp musician Jarvis Cocker. This cast is truly a well without a bottom, feeling like a parody of Anderson’s own style.
