The reason why ‘Asteroid City’, the new Wes Anderson film, is no longer for people over 18 years of age, despite its explicit content

‘Asteroid City’, the new film by Wes Andersonwhich set its filming in the Madrid towns of Chinchón and Colmenar de Orejahas achieved a new merit before its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place this May.

The movie, which originally rated 18+ due to the presence of graphic nudity and other explicit content, has seen its age range modified and Now it will be suitable for people over 12 years old, as he has shared DiscussingFilm, quoting Will Mavity.

The producer’s request to modify this classification comes as a result of the high audience expectations that the film has obtained after these months of promotion. opting to be the movie with the highest number of celebrities per minute in historyits producers do not want to waste even a feasible spectator that swells the numbers obtained after its premiere.

This change in its rating makes it the first film with explicit content to pass this type of cut in the US. Despite everything, it is not clear what type of content we will see exactly (it can be nudity in the foreground, or in the background, without much weight in the image).

After passing through the French Festival, The film will hit theaters on June 23 of this year.. However, before this the tape will have a limited release in theaters in the United States from June 16.

In its cast we will find such well-known faces as: Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jason Schwartzman, Margot Robbie, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan, Jeff Goldblum, Sophia Lillis. A whole cast of exceptional artists, who will immerse themselves in the director’s usual atmosphere of pastel colors and symmetrical environments.

According to the official synopsis for Anderson’s new film, we will travel back to the 1950s, to an imaginary and desert version of an American city. Over there, we will witness a meeting of space cadets that has been called to promote a friendly competition between students and parents of all country. However, peace of mind will be threatened by a series of unexpected events that could drastically alter the world as we know it.

Anderson’s particular imagery has also been giving rise to very varied content on social media. One of the current trends on platforms like Instagram or TikTok is based on creating personal content under the “aesthetics” of the filmmaker. Accompanying these videos with the theme ‘Obituary’, original from the latest film by the American: ‘The French Chronicle’.