


Liebling, Herbsaint Salzerac ( Owen Wilson), a writer and staff member of the French Dispatch. Berensen ( Tilda Swinton), a writer and a staff-member, Roebuck Wright ( Jeffrey Wright), a food journalist based on an amalgamation of journalists James Baldwin and A. ( Bill Murray), the editor of the French Dispatch, based on Harold Ross, the co-founder of The New Yorker, J. The staff of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun includes Arthur Howitzer Jr. READ MORE: Ranking Wes Anderson’s Most Memorable Characters “The French Dispatch” has been described as a love letter to journalists and this clearly has much to do with Anderson’s affection for the New Yorker which he has devotedly read since he was a teenager.

Suffice to say there’s a catalyst event that makes the staff of the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun look back on some of their greatest stories. It’s the final issue of the magazine because of…a spoiler that’s already been revealed in the synopsis of a French Amazon description of the screenplay that will be available for sale in May in France (we ran them and Searchlight were asked to take them down). READ MORE: ‘The French Dispatch’ & The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2020 It is called the Liberty Kansas Evening Sun, it’s run by American ex-pats and it’s the French Dispatch or French edition of the magazine that’s run out of the offices in the invented French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé. The “French Dispatch” is about the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. READ MORE: ‘French Dispatch’ Trailer: Wes Anderson Crafts An Eclectic Loveletter To Journalists & Short Storytellers Well, it’s elementary, really, but here’s a fun breakdown of the trailer if you watched it but didn’t actually pay much attention to the details (and yesterday’s New Yorker first look piece filled in many of the details too). The trailer for Wes Anderson‘s latest comedy “ The French Dispatch” has appeared online today and Twitter is abuzz, but one sentiment that seems to be universal is that everyone seems to think it looks fantastic, but no one seems to know what it’s actually about.
