Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme to hit Indian cinemas on this date

Watch | The Phoenician Scheme trailer: Europe’s famed oligarch teams up with his nun daughter for a high-stakes game in Wes Anderson’s spy comedy

The film revolves around a fractured father-daughter relationship set within the confines of a powerful, secretive family-run business. “When the daughter, once estranged from her enigmatic father, returns to uncover the truth about her family’s wealth, she stumbles upon a covert global operation entangled in political manipulation, surveillance, and betrayal,” reads the official plotline.

Wes Anderson said he wrote The Phoenician Scheme specifically with the aim of collaborating with Benicio del Toro once again. The duo had earlier worked together on the 2021 movie The French Dispatch. “I first brought this up with Benicio in 2021, at Cannes for ‘The French Dispatch’. I told him then that something was coming his way if he was interested. Benicio and I started working on it very early. As soon as there were fifteen pages of the script, he’d seen that. There was never a moment in the process when Benicio was not involved,” the director said.

The Phoenician Scheme is produced by Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson and John Peet.