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Wes Anderson Keeps Me Guessing
Indie Schmindie / Daniel Carlson

Trade News | September 10, 2008 | Comments (10)

wes460.jpgFollowing the career of Wes Anderson is like watching your kid grow up to alternately do you proud, disappoint you, get back on the right track, and then seem to wander. It’s not that the man’s a bad filmmaker — if he never does anything else, he will still have given us Rushmore, and that’s no small thing — it’s just that he seems to exhibit a tendency to get involved with questionable subject matter. He just completed an animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox, and it was announced this week that his next project will be writing the adaptation of the 2006 French film Mon meilleur ami.

My Best Friend is also being eyed as a directing vehicle for Anderson. The original film starred Daniel Auteuil as a cranky guy who learned that none of his friends really liked him. He takes a bet that he can’t produce a genuine best friend, and winds up paying a cab driver to portray the role. On one hand, it sounds like the kind of quirky/”quirky” thing that Anderson could do in his sleep. On the other, it’s not his own story, so there’s no telling how much of his own stamp he’ll be able to put on it. Still, worth watching out for.


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Comments

Let's just hope he gets those Wilson Brothers back on track. Throw Owen some choice role he can do in his sleep.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 9:18 AM

(One of these days the temptation will be too great and I will say First. I need to get away from those Onion AV Club message boards, they're a bad influence)

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at September 10, 2008 9:19 AM

So we can expect Bill Murray as either 'cranky guy' or 'cab driver', yes?

Posted by: Bennet at September 10, 2008 9:43 AM

(A momentary threadjack)

Scene: AvB's place

Time: 3:49 p.m. yesterday (the fourth hour)

(Let's listen in ...)

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(Yeah!)

Ah, AvB, my little minx, you are one tasty morsel. Same time next week?

Posted by: bucdaddy at September 10, 2008 9:51 AM

Um. Whoa. AvB, suddenly I feel like I've been peeking into your bedroom/dungeon-- Bungeon?--window.


And I like.

Posted by: Mella at September 10, 2008 10:01 AM

bucdaddy, I have cleared my Tuesday schedules every week for the next 6 months. Awwww, yeeeaahhh.

(I don't know if I like the sound of Bungeon, Mella... too much like bunger, ifyaknowwhaddimean... I'm not into anybody peeking in that window.)

Oh, Wes Anderson, I want to love you. I even liked Darjeeling, in a way. But Roald Dahl? I mean, I feel like his stories are so much better suited to the page than the screen. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about this. *sigh*

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at September 10, 2008 10:48 AM

It seems like the people who claim to love Rushmore or The Royal Tennenbaums are the first to attack Wes Anderson for anything he does nowadays. I don't see how either of those projects' subject matter is "questionable." Not what you were expecting, sure, but questionable?

I'm tempted to throw around the words 'arrogant' and 'hipster,' but I was told to stay away from explosives, so I guess I'll back down.

Posted by: Heliotype at September 10, 2008 10:53 AM

I'm bored. Are you bored? I'm gonna take a Vicodin and see how these storyboards turn out.

Posted by: firedmyass at September 10, 2008 11:02 AM

Mon meilleur ami was actually a pretty nice/sweet moive. But dammit if Hollywood (yeah, wes is hollywood now) won't remake a perfectly good film that came out TWO years ago. Wes has no real part in this, I don't understand...at least he shouldn't.

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at September 10, 2008 11:21 AM

I'm with heliotype.

And those folks are only half-assing the cooler-than-thou, if you weren't, you say that Bottle Rocket is his greatest work.

Snark aside, Anderson is a filmmaker who is progressing. With his ups and downs, accomplishments and (really) minor failures. Nothing more, nothing less.

Posted by: mexcillent at September 14, 2008 12:09 AM