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Mandatory Pajiba Hipster Update: Focus Features Picks Up Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (21)

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Alert! Alert! I don’t know how this happened, but we’re behind on our hipster news—quick, someone bring me the patchouli oil—I need a sniff! Ah, that’s better. Listen man, we can’t just let this kind of stuff pass us by. I mean, here we are at what might be the hipster capital of the world and no one has even mentioned Wes Anderson in weeks…dare I say, months? It ain’t right. We’ll lose our street cred. How did I not even know Anderson had this INSANE cast lined up? Check it: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda (muthafuckin’!) Swinton and Owen Wilson. I don’t care if they all just gather in a room, smoke, drink and stand around looking as cool as they are; I am in. But in reality (film reality), they’ll be running around neighborhoods, looking for a couple of hipster tweens and considering how kick-ass they all (most of them) are, this should make for an interesting couple of hours.

Moonrise Kingdom is the story of a couple of 12 year old lovebirds (first time actors, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) who decide to run away together, throwing the town into a panic and spurring various groups to assemble search parties. McDormand and Murray play the young girl’s parents; Willis is the town sheriff and Norton, a camp counselor. The film is set in 1960s New England, so I’m hoping for some great threads and groovy tunes.

Focus Features will distribute Moonrise Kingdom, which is filming in Rhode Island and set for a 2012 release. This has been a Pajiba Hipster Update, you may now resume your regularly scheduled activities.

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Posted by: gunnertec at May 4, 2011 11:34 AM

I'll see this; I love Wes Anderson films. But, you're right, he really is the key to understanding modern hipsterism. See also, Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry.

Twee!

Posted by: RobP at May 4, 2011 11:35 AM

Man, if Frances McDormand & Bill Murray were MY parents, I'd never want to leave home.

Posted by: badkittyuno at May 4, 2011 11:50 AM

This movie is already 5x better in my head than it will be on film.

Posted by: D-Day at May 4, 2011 11:59 AM

For equating my Wes Anderson fandom with patchouli oil I will cut your throat.

Posted by: Jay at May 4, 2011 12:08 PM

People get so bent out of shape over their entertainment. Jeepers."

Posted by: Cindy at May 4, 2011 12:11 PM

Stupid hipsters.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 4, 2011 12:17 PM

Oh, you dog. You go right for the throat. The only thing hipsters hate more than -- let's say "employment" this time -- is being forced to acknowledge that they are hipsters.

Now you will excuse me. I am just about to ride my fixey down to this awesome little bistro on the square that serves cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon for a dollar. My favorite band is playing today. They're called "Retro Happenstance Euphoria." You've probably never heard of them.

Posted by: superasente at May 4, 2011 12:20 PM

Patchouli oil? I don't think you've got your stereotypes straight.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 4, 2011 12:41 PM

Oh no my friend. Hipsters are direct descendants of hippies; they're born with the stuff in their blood (though they might not like to admit it).

Posted by: Cindy at May 4, 2011 12:58 PM

Now get your patchouli stink outta my store!

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 4, 2011 1:00 PM

Posted by: superasente at May 4, 2011 12:20 PM

That is one of the most fabulous fake band names in the history of fake band names. Or maybe, as you say, they do exist and I've just never heard of them.

I'm so uncool. I'm so uncool. I'm so uncool.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 4, 2011 1:03 PM

No! No... That's not true! That's Impossible! Noooooo!

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at May 4, 2011 1:08 PM

I'm highly amused that they're filming this all over Rhode Island, my homestate. I really really hope that my mother runs into SWINTON. Just because it would be like matter meeting antimatter. The visual amuses me.

Posted by: BoatGirl at May 4, 2011 2:13 PM

So in. Frances and SWINTON in the same movie? Hell to the yes.

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at May 4, 2011 4:11 PM

Sassafrass - I take it you missed Burn After Reading? Agreed on the hell yes though. Hell to the yes for the entire cast.

It's alright though, I'm not a hipster. Hipsters are too mainstream.

Posted by: Bert at May 4, 2011 4:28 PM

if I smoked it would be clove cigarettes, and I would burn people who wear patchouli oil with my clove cigarettes...and if that makes me a hipster, I could care less.

Mothra faulkners. (Hipsters! not you or pajiba commenters)

Posted by: JuiceinLA at May 4, 2011 4:56 PM

It's a wonder that everyone in a Wes Anderson film isn't a first-time actor. I mean, that's basically the ultimate "haven't heard of" card. Well, everyone except for Bill Murray.

Posted by: zomgmouse at May 4, 2011 6:27 PM

Man Wes Anderson isnt only for Hipsters...my boyfriend is the complete opposite and he fucking LOVES Anderson...its caused problems

Posted by: sara at May 4, 2011 7:02 PM

"Patchouli oil? I don't think you've got your stereotypes straight."

Agreed.

Now, that is unless you hear a hippie boasting about how he was a hipster before hipsters knew about being hipsters. In that case, you've got yourself a genuine hippie-ster, and patchouli oil is indeed applicable.

Posted by: JohnnyBee at May 4, 2011 7:17 PM

Oh, no, you can like Wes Anderson and not be a Hipster, but you can't be a Hipster and dislike Wes Anderson. Especially, The Life Aquatic. They mothra faulking love that shit. It's in the by-laws.

Posted by: RobP at May 4, 2011 9:27 PM