Where to watch The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel is available to stream in GB on Disney+ and Netflix. It can also be rented or bought from AppleTV and Amazon.
A legendary concierge at a celebrated European hotel forms a close friendship with a young lobby boy who becomes his trusted protégé. Together, they are drawn into a fast-moving adventure involving a stolen Renaissance painting, a disputed family fortune and sweeping changes across Europe.
Cast: F. Murray Abraham, Ralph Fiennes, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman
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Trivia & production notes
- Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness began developing The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2006 with an 18-page script, but their collaboration stalled when they couldn't establish a coherent sequence of events.
- Anderson drew inspiration from Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig's works, particularly Beware of Pity, The World of Yesterday, and The Post Office Girl, which he studied while developing the film.
- Anderson completed the screenplay in six weeks once The Grand Budapest Hotel took definite form, after initially struggling with the story structure.
- Ralph Fiennes was cast as Gustave after Anderson had sought to work with him for several years; Fiennes was eager for the role because it allowed him to depart from his typically villainous character types.
- Fiennes drew inspiration for Gustave's character from his role in the 1999 film Sunshine, his past work as a young porter at Brown's Hotel in London, and reading Stefan Zweig's The World of Yesterday.
- Casting director Douglas Aibel spent months searching for an unknown teenage actor of Arab descent to play young Zero before filmmakers revised the role's ethnicity and eventually cast Tony Revolori, a novice Guatemalan actor.
- Tony Revolori and Wes Anderson rehearsed together for over four months before filming began to develop their rapport.
- Tilda Swinton was not an original choice for Madame D.; she was cast after Angela Lansbury dropped out due to a prior commitment to a Driving Miss Daisy theater production.
- Saoirse Ronan initially worried that Anderson's deadpan, theatrical acting style would be too difficult to master, but was reassured by his confidence and clear vision.
- Anderson decided to have Saoirse Ronan perform Agatha in her native Irish accent after experimenting with German, English, and American accents, feeling the Irish accent conveyed warmth and feistiness.
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