Wes Anderson’s New Film Pairs a Billionaire Dad with a Nun Daughter

 

Info in Movie News | Wes Anderson’s back with another quirky tale, and this time it’s a wild father-daughter duo at the center of it all. In The Phoenician Scheme, Benicio del Toro plays one of Europe’s richest men, while Mia Threapleton (yep, Kate Winslet’s daughter) plays his daughter—who just happens to be a nun. Not your typical family drama.

According to Variety, del Toro stars as Zsa-zsa Korda, a flamboyant business magnate, and Threapleton takes on the role of Sister Liesel, his daughter who’s chosen a completely different path in life. Rounding out the trio is Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, Liesel’s tutor. The film also boasts a stacked cast including Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Riz Ahmed, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeffrey Wright, and more.

Based completely in Germany, the movie was co-written by Anderson and his long-time collaborator Roman Coppola, along with the music composed by Alexandre Desplat, who’s mostly the go-to composer for that unique Anderson feel.

Asteroid City (2023) and The French Dispatch (2021) are among Anderson’s recent works. In 2024, he also won his first Oscar for the short film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Despite his unmistakable style, Anderson once said in 2023 that he doesn’t actually think about his “style” while working: “I think about what’s new for this movie… and yet every time I make a movie, the first thing people say is: ‘You can sure tell who made this one!’”

The Phoenician Scheme will hit theaters in limited release on May 30, with a wider release set for June 6 through Focus Features—the same distributor behind Asteroid City and Moonrise Kingdom. With its offbeat story and star-studded cast, this might just be Anderson’s most unexpected project yet.

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