Benicio del Toro Plays Bloodied Arms Dealer in Wes Anderson’s ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Trailer

Benicio del Toro plays a bloodied and black-eyed arms dealer who survives six plane crashes and overlooks his nine sons to give his family empire to his one daughter, Liesl, a nun with a knife played by Mia Threapleton, in the trailer for Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, which dropped on Monday.

“Today, tonight and tomorrow, we rendezvous with every titan and pretend we agree what we already agreed. But, in fact, we don’t. We can’t,” Zsa-zsa Korda (del Toro) says at one point in the teaser for the espionage black comedy as he attempts to secure the future of his family business and repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.

Other cast members include Michael Cera as tutor Bjorn Lund, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston, who compete in a 3-point basketball shot competition. Anderson is known for doing repeat business with collaborators, from cast to crew, which he had done again with his latest feature shot in Germany.

Focus Features has set an initial May 30 release for The Phoenician Scheme, ahead of an expanded wide release on June 6. Anderson penned the script for his 13th feature from a story he wrote with Roman Coppola. The film hails from Indian Paintbrush, and is the third team-up with Anderson, Indian Paintbrush and Focus, which also released Asteroid City (2023) and Moonrise Kingdom (2012).

Anderson produced the feature via his American Empirical Pictures banner. Steven Rales of Indian Paintbrush also produced, with Jeremy Dawson and John Peet.

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