Wes Anderson says that he didn’t write The Grand Budapest Hotel script with any particular actor in mind.
Anderson is back in the director’s chair for The Grand Budapest Hotel, for which he has brought together a very impressive cast.
Ralph Fiennes will lead that cast alongside Jude Law, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Tilda Swinton are all on board.
Speaking to Total Film, the director said: “Some of them as I was working on the script, I was kind of saying, ‘This one, maybe this person. This one, this person.’ None of the roles were really shaped with a particular actor in mind.
“Many of them were people who I knew already or had worked with already. I tried to book them early and convince them to play these parts.”
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the first big screen outing for Anderson since the success of Moonrise Kingdom back in 2012 - he has worked on a series of shorts in the last year.
The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.
The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is released 7th March.
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