The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

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Release date

2025-05-23

Country

United States, Germany

Production

Studio Babelsberg, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures

Genre

Comedy, Adventure, Crime

Budget

$30 000 000

Revenue

$40 566 381

Website

https://focusfeatures.com/the-phoenician-scheme

Director

Wes Anderson

Actors

Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeffrey Wright
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Scenario

Producer

Wes Anderson, Steven M. Rales, Jeremy Dawson, John Peet, Roman Coppola, Henning Molfenter

Operator

Bruno Delbonnel

Composer

Alexandre Desplat

Artist

Celina Hollaender, Jourdan McKee, Stefanie Übelhör

Audition

Douglas Aibel, Jina Jay, Alexandra Montag

Editing

Barney Pilling
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• Benicio Del Toro agreed to play J.J. Corda after reading 20 pages of script sent to him by director, writer, and producer Wes Anderson. The excerpt concerned his character and his daughter.
• Phoenicia is a region encompassing Lebanon and Syria. The fictional Phoenicia referenced in this project roughly corresponds to the same region within the borders it held in the first half of the 20th century, i.e., including French Algeria, the Suez Canal, Egypt, and the Mediterranean.
• This is the first film directed, written, and produced by Wes Anderson to be shot by Bruno Delbonnel instead of Robert D. Yeoman, who usually collaborates with Anderson. Yeoman was busy filming Kwame Kwei-Armah’s biographical drama 'The Collaboration'.
• Wes Anderson noted that the films of Spanish director and screenwriter Luis Buñuel had a significant influence on him while working on 'The Phoenician Scheme'.