Asteroid City

In a 1950s-era American desert town that may or may not be a television set, writer-director Augie Steenbeck is trying to make a film. His cast is confined to a resort that may or may not be a quarantined zone. Something happened — or didn’t — under the stars. Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is his most formally complex film — a film about a television programme about a play, a structure of nested fictions whose relationship to reality (the death of a parent, the impossibility of connection) is the subject of the whole.

This Faber volume presents the complete screenplay alongside production material and analysis — the essential companion for anyone who wants to understand what Anderson was doing and how.

Published by Faber & Faber.