Now, is there any combination that could possibly be sweeter than arthouse wonder Wes Anderson joining forces with our king Timothée Chalamet on a film set in a fictional 20th century French city? We bloody doubt it.Yup, the duo’s upcoming project, titled The French Dispatch, has been at the top of our ‘to-watch’ list ever since it was announced back in December 2018. It’s been billed as a love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city, combining the tales of three protagonists in a sort of anthology story, lifted from the publication’s final issue. The cast – on top of TC – includes the likes of Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Adrien Brody, Elisabeth Moss, Léa Seydoux, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray and Alex Lawther. Jam-packed indeed.After months of being left in the dark (with the exception of a few journalists on Twitter predicting the film would bow at the Cannes Film Festival in May), the film has finally nabbed its official release date.
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According to a newly released teaser poster, the film will hit US cinemas on 24 July 2020, meaning we have a hot summer of TC premieres coming soon! It’s expected to arrive in the UK and around the world the same week.Despite swirling rumours of it being a 4+ hour epic (this was later dismissed as someone trolling Wes Anderson stans with Nymphomaniac’s runtime), the film has a confirmed tight 108-minute length, and an R rating in the USA for ”graphic nudity, some sexual references, and language”.Looks like the return of our king is far more imminent than we once anticipated. Fasten your seat belts!