Wes Anderson’s New Movie The Phoenician Scheme Gets First Trailer: Watch

Starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Scarlett Johansson, Jeffrey Wright, and more
Benicio del Toro and Mia Threapleton
Benicio del Toro as Zsa-Zsa Korda and Mia Threapleton as Liesl in The Phoenician Scheme (Courtesy of TPS Productions/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.)

Wes Anderson’s new movie, The Phoenician Scheme, arrives in theaters on Friday, May 30, and, today, Focus Features has unveiled the first trailer. It presents the story of Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), a rich businessman and “maverick in the fields of armaments and aviation” who enlists his daughter (Mia Threapleton), a nun, in a treacherous “land and sea infrastructure scheme.” Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, Mathieu Amalric, and Benedict Cumberbatch portray the cast of characters trying to assist or thwart them. Watch it go down below.

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