News: Is Wes Anderson Making the Jump to Mainstream Genres?

Auteur writer/director Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) may be headed to a new genre beyond arthouse quirky dramas. 

Anderson recently revealed that he soon might step out of his comfort zone with an attempt at horror. 

"I have thought of doing a horror movie. Horror is an area where if a filmmaker really wants to use all the tricks, the techniques to affect your emotions…. With the kind of movies I do, you're supposed to say is this part supposed to be funny, or is this part supposed to be sad? Well, you say, I don't know. I'm not sure. This is the way we wanted it.

When you make a horror or a thriller, you say you're supposed to be scared here. You're supposed to be relieved here. Here we're explaining something so you know the next part so you'll be more scared then. I like the idea of the requirements and the obligations of working in a genre like that. I've done some scenes like that, but I'd like to do a scary movie."

Anderson also revealed that he's interested in doing a Christmas movie:

"The good thing with a Christmas movie - if you make a great Christmas song or movie or book, as Dickens showed us, you can make a huge fortune, because they come back every year. As long as you have a piece of the action, then it's a perennial."

Anderson's current project is a stop-motion film about dogs, which features the voices of Edward Norton, Bryan Cranston, Bob Balaban, and Jeff Goldblum.

Source: Filmmaker Magazine