The American director Wes Anderson made fun of Donald Trump’s plan to impose serious prices on foreign manufacturing films, which suggests that it would especially strike the filmmakers like him and would be impracticable in practice.
“Can you hold the film in customs?” The main author of the world of cinematographic fantasy asked during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival. “I think it will not be shipped that way. I’m not sure I want to know the details, so I’m going to keep my official response. ”
Earlier this month, Trump announced on his social platform Truth a 100% price on all films “produced in foreign land”, saying that the American film industry died a “very rapid death” because an increasing number of American filmmakers were running in other countries to take advantage of tax incentives or cheaper production costs.
“The price is fascinating because of the 100%,” said Anderson, who is in Cannes to promote his new film The Phoenic Scheme, which was mainly shot at the Babelsberg studio in Potsdam outside Berlin, Germany. “I am not an expert in this area of the economy, but I think that means that Trump says he is going to take all the money. And then what do we get? “
The easily distracted American president has not developed more on his film rate plans since the announcement on May 5. An open letter signed by major studios, the unions of the film industry and the “Hollywood ambassadors” from Trump, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone, calls on the government to try to rekindle the American film industry with tax incentives, specifically mentioning those in place in the United Kingdom and Australia.
In the Phoenician program, Puerto Rican actor “” “”, a ruthless and egocentric industrialist who is concerned about the future of his fortune after having survived an assassination attempt and begins to maintain the error of his ways.
Anderson described Korda as embodying “the darkness of a certain type of capitalist”, and as “a character who does not really care about the way the great decisions he has empowered to take for the world affects the populations of the workforce and the landscapes”.
The Phoenician program features a range of Hollywood royalties, with major and minor appearances of Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Benedict Cumberbatch, Scarlett Johansson and Michael Cera. In Cannes, Anderson announced that he was working on a script for a future film with the British actor Richard Ayoade, who plays a guerrilla warfare in the Che Guevara style in the Phoenician program.
When he was asked if he planned to follow up on one of the 12 other characteristics he had directed so far, Anderson has announced his desire to make a second part of The Life Aquatic of 2004 with Steve Zissou, and spontaneously shake his hand with Bill Murray on the project.
