If you’re familiar with the work of Wes Anderson — and if you’ve spent any time on TikTok recently, you should be — then you will not be surprised by the quirky way in which his latest film, Asteroid City, begins.
We’re told that the city itself does not exist. It is, instead, the setting of a play called “Asteroid City.” The events we’re about to see in the film are, essentially, a play-within-a-play — one that was never actually staged.
“The characters are fictional, the text hypothetical, the events an apocryphal fabrication,” explains our host (Bryan Cranston). “But together, they present an authentic account of the inner-workings of a modern theatrical production.”
Alrighty, then.
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