Asteroid City (2023) — Screenplay
A grieving father takes his tech-obsessed family to a desert stargazing contest, where an encounter with the cosmos upends his worldview and inspires a famous play.
- Written by
- Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Studio
- Focus Features, Indian Paintbrush, American Empirical Pictures
- Length
- 120 pages
This script is a masterclass in Wes Anderson's signature tonal balancing act, blending deadpan comedy with deep melancholy. Writers will study its nested narrative structure—a play within a film—and how the dialogue's precise, clipped rhythms reveal character vulnerability, making the emotional payoff in the final act feel earned.
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