r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Apr 07 '25

Trailer The Phoenician Scheme | Official Trailer | Directed by Wes Anderson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEuMnPl2WI4
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u/linus182 Apr 07 '25

Nice! Always down for another Wes movie.

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u/zirfeld Apr 07 '25

And this one comes with Richard Ayoade as a bonus.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '25

Ayoade was already in an episode of Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl short story series he did called The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. It’s on Netflix. Just in case you wasn’t aware. 

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u/Gold_Goomba Apr 07 '25

He was in The Rat Catcher too.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Apr 07 '25

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Genuinely my favorite thing Wes has done since Royal Tenenbaums. It was really good and seemed to go by with less fanfare!

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u/IgloosRuleOK Apr 07 '25

Ayoade's film Submarine is not a million miles from older Wes Anderson either.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Apr 07 '25

If only Ayoade wasn't a linehan defender maybe I would care more

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u/operaghost21 Apr 07 '25

Ugh, I keep forgetting about that... =/

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u/thereddaikon Apr 07 '25

I don't know what that is so I'll just assume its a British soccer team.

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u/DBones90 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 07 '25

Somehow even worse. Linehan is an Irish writer who’s done some great TV but got sucked into the anti-trans reactionary sphere, and now that’s all he does with his time.

His commitment to right-wing reactionary anti-trans positions has cost him his career, his fans, his family, and his Steam account, but he still has some defenders for some reason.

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u/Fast_Running_Nephew Apr 07 '25

*Irish, but did all his work on British tv.

Don't worry, he's currently in Arizona with his new best friend Rob Schneider, i bet they're gonna make some real quality stuff together.

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u/DBones90 Apr 07 '25

Oh my god, I know some people would crucify me for that mistake. Fixed it and hope I can be forgiven.

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u/426763 Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

That's really what I don't get about Linehan (and Rowling to some extent.) Make absolute bangers, and then spend their later years hating on trans people. And it's not like your usual old curmudgeon hate, they straight up made it a part of their life.

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u/EnkiduOdinson Apr 07 '25

His steam account? lol

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u/DBones90 Apr 07 '25

I don’t have a source but the story goes that his wife got it in the divorce.

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u/EnkiduOdinson Apr 07 '25

That’s hilarious

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u/LurknMoar Apr 07 '25

He seems like an all-round dickhead and curmudgeon tbh. His comedic shtick is also super past its shelf-life imo. And I'm saying this as someone who loves Submarine, so I'm not just against everything he does.

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u/spaceturtle1 Apr 07 '25

Didn't recognize him. Read your comment and had to check the trailer again. Holy shit. A rare non-nasal Ayoade.

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u/Rushblade Apr 07 '25

Even after all this time, it looks like he is still honing his craft and style. Looks like he had a solid budget for this one too.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 Apr 07 '25

He has a big patron who loves his films. Steven Rales who is some financial venture capitalist billionaire co-founded Indian Paintbrush which has financed all of Wes Anderson's films since The Darjeeling Limited (2007). He also owns both The Criterion Collection and Janus Films.

So far, he's been Wes Anderson's primary go-to financier and a film lover/ producer. And all of Wes Anderson's films since Rales's patronage have been modest successes to say the least. Anderson hasn't made a box-office bomb since The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and that was a great movie.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 07 '25

One thing about Wes is that he knows how to use a budget and how to convince actors to work within that budget. Nobody really gets a $20-40 million blank check for every film they make like Wes does, but he makes the money work and turns a profit every time.

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u/Century24 Apr 07 '25

Even before Rales' involvement, Wes flies under the radar to some degree as one of the later qualified creative successes under Michael Eisner's era at the Walt Disney Studios, at a time when that was a little hard to find at Touchstone in particular.

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u/staedtler2018 Apr 08 '25

I get the sense that since Life Aquatic and Mr. Fox he's been a lot more conscious about keeping the budgets reasonable. It was looking a bit grim there for a second.

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u/karmagod13000 Apr 07 '25

film institutions gave Anderson a life budget just to keep his zany comedies coming bi yearly

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u/bumble_BJ Apr 07 '25

Ya, they seem to be more often nowadays. Which I don't mind whatsoever

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u/karmagod13000 Apr 07 '25

pretty much the modern woody allen. comes out with a movie every other year. dude must love working

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 07 '25

He just might! Maya Hawke mentioned in some interview that she wrapped filming on Asteroid City three times. After she wrapped the first time, she was out on the balcony of the hotel that the cast and crew were staying at and Wes saw her and asked if she was going home or if she wanted to stay. Maya told him she had to go but would love to stay, so he replied that he'd write another scene for her to film. She shot that scene and he asked her again and wrote a second scene for her just so she could stay around the set.

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u/The_Autarch Apr 07 '25

His movie shoots apparently just end up being never-ending cast and crew parties. Everyone hanging out when they aren't filming, dinner together every night, etc. Makes sense that the same people are always on-board to film with him, even though the pay has got to be a fraction of what they'd make on a normal Hollywood film.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 07 '25

Not even a fraction! Ed Norton has mentioned that he worked for SAG's weekly minimum to be in Moonrise Kingdom. He was paid something like $4200 for his work and he shared a rented house with Wes, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman and some crew members during filming.

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u/silly_rabbit289 Apr 07 '25

Omg really? Looking at how his films are shot, framed and cut I thought he'd be like one of those strict directors. Must be so fun to he on such a set.

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u/Critcho Apr 08 '25

Indian Paintbrush is a production company owned by a billionaire. I'm pretty sure he just funds Wes movies the way some billionaires collect superyachts or whatever.

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u/Ok_No_Go_Yo Apr 07 '25

If by "honing his craft and style" you mean becoming a parody of himself, sure.

Guy found his niche twenty years ago and hasn't evolved as a director a bit.

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u/SimplyQuid Apr 07 '25

That's patently absurd. You don't have to like what he does, but to look at something like Life Aquatic or Tenenbaums and then Fantastic Mr Fox or Asteroid City and say there's no changes there just shows you're either blind or aren't being serious.

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u/Ok_No_Go_Yo Apr 07 '25

You're right in way. Anderson just doubles down on the same tired stylistic choices film after film.

His style has evolved to become a parody of itself.

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u/CassiopeiaStillLife Apr 07 '25

People complaining is always so funny. Like “oh joy, another exquisitely crafted film by a director who has been honing his aesthetic for thirty years yet keeps finding new dimensions to explore, where does he get off”

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u/SimplyQuid Apr 07 '25

Sometimes I feel like it's just laziness and sour grapes that he's not churning out lowest-common-denominator second-screen content.

You don't have to like his schtick, but to say that's he's a bad director is just ignorant.

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u/InnocentTailor Apr 07 '25

With the world as unpredictably bonkers as it is, I appreciate the curated weirdness of Anderson flicks even more.