The Phoenician Scheme (2025)
May 28, 2025Release Date
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Cast & Crew.

Benicio del Toro
Zsa-zsa Korda

Mia Threapleton
Sister Liesl

Michael Cera
Bjorn Lund

Bryan Cranston

Scarlett Johansson
Cousin Hilda

Benedict Cumberbatch
Uncle Nubar

Riz Ahmed
Prince Farouk

Tom Hanks
Leland

Bill Murray

Jeffrey Wright

Antonia Desplat
2nd Wife

Rupert Friend
Excaliber

Charlotte Gainsbourg
1st wife

Antonia Desplat
2nd wife

Jaime Krsto Ferkic
The Chauffer

Jina Jay
CastingDirector

Aysha Joy Samuel
Millita

Sabine Hollweck
Cook

Tonio Arango
Desert Assassin

Imke Büchel
Housekeeper

Wes Anderson
Producer / Director / Writer

Roman Coppola
Writer

Bruno Delbonnel
Director of Photography

Adam Stockhausen
Production Design
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The Phoenician Scheme is an upcoming espionage thriller film directed by Wes Anderson from a script he wrote with Roman Coppola. The film will feature an ensemble cast including Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Imad Mardnli and Benedict Cumberbatch. An international co-production between United States and Germany, it will be produced under Studio Babelsberg as well as Anderson through his company American Empirical Pictures and Steven Rales through his company Indian Paintbrush.
Anderson talked about the film in June 2023 while promoting Asteroid City (2023), and saying that it had already been written before the 2023 WGA strike began. Later, in September 2023, he revealed that del Toro and Cera were planned to join the cast, and he hoped to begin filming soon after the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike was over. The rest of the cast members signed on between January and June 2024. Filming took place at Babelsberg Studio in Germany, between March and June 2024, with cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel. Frequent Anderson composer Alexandre Desplat returns to compose the score.
The Phoenician Scheme is scheduled to be given a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 30, 2025, by Focus Features, before expanding nationwide a week later on June 6.