The French Dispatch trailer: Bill Murray and Timothée Chalamet star in new Wes Anderson film

Tilda Swinton, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss and Willem Dafoe also appear in Anderson’s starry follow-up to ‘Isle of Dogs’

The first trailer has been unveiled for The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s eagerly anticipated and star-studded follow-up to Isle of Dogs.

Starring Anderson regulars including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson and Tilda Swinton, alongside newcomers such as Timothée Chalamet and Elisabeth Moss, the film is set inside the newspaper of a fictional French town called Ennui-sur-Blasé.

This week it was revealed that Anderson’s adolescent love for the iconic US magazine The New Yorker had inspired the film. He has since become an avid collector of old issues.

The film is loosely inspired by three stories published in historic issues of The New Yorker, along with many of its real-life editors and contributors.

The French Dispatch – which was recently revealed to be two hours long, rather than four as it was originally reported - also stars Saoirse Ronan, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Willem Dafoe, Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber and Lea Seydoux.

It marks Anderson’s first live-action film since 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, which scored him his first Oscar nomination for Best Director.

The French Dispatch, which has been subtitled “Of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun”, will be released in UK cinemas on 28 August, and is widely tipped to premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival.