Watch: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Desert Sets of 'Asteroid City'

"So we were a student film on an enormous, giant set in the middle of Spain." Focus Features has debuted a new behind-the-scenes featurette for Wes Anderson's latest film titled Asteroid City - opening in theaters starting this weekend. It already premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last month (to rather mixed reviews - here's mine). The featurette takes a look at Anderson's gigantic practical set built in the middle of the desert, which he constructed bring audiences right into his fictional "Asteroid City", Population 87, in the 1950s. Most of the film takes place here, and it's a gorgeous set, that's for sure. They filmed this out in a very flat area of Spain in 2021, right during the middle of the pandemic a few years back. It was a "bubble" of actors & crew and Anderson sort of describes that experience in this video. The massive ensemble cast of Asteroid City includes Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, and Tom Hanks, plus many others. Even if the film isn't your jam, it's impossible to not admire Anderson's aesthetic and his dedication to building one-of-a-kind sets to shoot his films. I'd love to visit one sometime. // Continue Reading ›

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