Cinematic auteur, icon of pastel aesthetic, and pen salesman Wes Anderson enjoys a diversified repertoire. He’s made commercials, labored in live-action movie and animation, long-form and quick, and has been recognized to don a number of hats on every set. Whereas most of his work is unique, he has additionally tailored the work of creator Roald Dahl with “Incredible Mr. Fox” and, most just lately, his Oscar-winning “The Great Story of Henry Sugar.” Collaborating in a dialog on the Annecy Worldwide Animation Competition in France, reported on by The Hollywood Reporter, Anderson mentioned he’s now able to tackle one other enormous British novelist.
“I really feel like the author who I want to adapt — who I don’t know if I can see the chance — is Dickens,” he mentioned. “I want to do an enormous Dickens story. They’ve all been tailored. They’ve all been carried out many occasions. They’re so attention-grabbing. Folks maintain going again to them. They’re so entertaining and so advanced.”
Anderson’s not unsuitable. A number of books by Charles Dickens have been tailored for movie and tv, a few of which (see: “A Christmas Carol”) have been tailored a number of occasions and for numerous time intervals and cultures. Anderson himself acknowledged the masterful work David Lean did along with his 1948 adaptation of “Oliver Twist.” Talking at Annecy, he mentioned, ““It units a excessive bar to compete with. [Roman] Polanski additionally did an Oliver Twist [in 2005].”
When it comes to particular tasks, Anderson additionally introduced he’d simply completed work on his newest effort, “The Phoenician Scheme.” The movie boasts a usually star-studded forged, together with Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johannson, and lots of others.
“This movie I simply completed making in Germany, there should be 100 individuals on the movie who’ve labored with me on different movies,” Anderson mentioned. “It might be extra who come again — and plenty of castmembers.”
Addressing his distinctive method to filmmaking, Anderson mentioned, “People who find themselves newcomers on the set or [to] the method of constructing one among my films discover it unusual. It’s not essentially the best way films are usually made. Most likely each director is like that. We’ve our personal unusual strategies, which started in some methods with the primary movie I made.”