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Wes Anderson Wants To Remake A 1950s Italian Love Story—With A Twist

We already know we're going to love it.

Leave it to director Wes Anderson to constantly challenge himself in the ways of visual storytelling. The "Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox" auteur is heading back to the latter's format — stop-motion animation — to tell a love letter story of sorts.

While at the Lisbon And Estoril Film Festival this weekend, Anderson spoke about his desire to return to the adorable iteration of visual storytelling during a Q&A (because twee adorable things are sort of his bag), revealing big plans and an homage of sorts, according to Portugese c7nema.net.

Inspired by the telling of Vittorio De Sica's "The Gold of Naples" — a love letter to that particular city from 1954 — that he saw very recently (and presented during the festival), Anderson admitted his hopes to mash-up the anthology filmmaking of that film with the intricacies of stop-motion animation. The film would be presented in six vignettes or episodes.

IndieWire went on to speculate a bit more, as the director had already admitted to them that he and his "Moonrise Kingdom" collaborator Roman Coppola would be co-writing another project together.

"... it's a little bit vaguely avant-garde in its concept and I'm just not sure if it's going to quite gel," Anderson explained. He also, at the time, teased that there would be "many things happening at once" in his next project.

If anyone can make that kind of chaos work—even in stop-motion—it's Wes.

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