Daily Times

Bill Murray is the editor of a literary magazine – and lord of chaos – in the new trailer for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, out July 24th. Set in Ennui-sur-Blasé, a fictional city in France, the clip opens with Tilda Swinton’s narration as she explains the genesis of the Dispatch: “A factual weekly report on the subjects of politics, the arts – high and low – and diverse stories of human interest.” “You don’t think it’s too seedy this time?” Murray’s Arthur Howitzer Jr. asks Owen Wilson’s character, Sazerac, as the latter fixes a bike in the newsroom. Which story he’s referring to, we don’t know. Wilson responds, “I think it’s charming!” The trailer then cycles through various stories that the Dispatch is working on: an eccentric artist and his in-demand works, the May ’68 occupations and one of its student protestors and then a kidnapping scheme that seems to involve a chef.