Focus Features Buys Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’
Wes Andersonis shooting his next film,Moonrise Kingdom, right now in Rhode Island, and the film now has distribution set: Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights. Some of those rights will be sold off at Cannes, wihle the company will release the film under the Focus banner in the US.Moonrise Kingdomhas a few new faces for the Wes Anderson collective, as the castincludes:Bruce Willis,Edward Norton,Frances McDormand,Tilda Swintonand regularsBill MurrayandJason Schwartzman. Bruce Willis? Yep, and I can’t say I’m not really interested to see how that works out for Wes Anderson. The full synopsis is after the break.
In case you’ve missed the few previous reports we’ve had on the film, Moonrise Kingdom goes like this (viaAnne Thompson):
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, Moonrise Kingdom follows a young boy and girl falling in love. When they are moved to run away together, various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down – which might not be such a bad thing. Bruce Willis plays the town sheriff; two-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton is cast as a camp leader; Academy Award nominee Bill Murray and Academy Award winner Frances McDormand portray the young girl’s parents; the cast also includes Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman. The young boy and girl are played by Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.
Wes Anderson wrote the script withRoman Coppola; the two also teamed forThe Darjeeling Limited. The casting ofJared GilmanandKara Haywardin the roles of the two young lovers whose disappearing act motivates the plot is new info, too. Not much info is available on either of those actors, so if they turn out to be significant new discoveries, that’ll be one more reason to check out the film.
