The Grand Budapest Hotel

by Wes Anderson

144 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2025

About the author

Wesley Wales Anderson is an American director, writer, and producer of features, short films and commercials. He was nominated for a 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums.

Reviews

[William Næss]

ELSKER WES ANDERSON!!
Må få lest de andre screenplay bøkene hans fordi denne var så bra!! Så mye som skjedde på så kort tid🏃🏼🏃🏼
Nå skal jeg reewatche filmen😁😁

[Tom]

With The Grand Budapest Hotel being (at time of writing, at least) my favourite Wes Anderson movie, when I visited the archival exhibition of his work at the Design Museum in London I picked up a copy of the screenplay as something of a souvenir.

I won’t go in depth as I’ve already reviewed the film itself for that (above) but, the screenplay is a rather different beast.

While from watching his films it’s abundantly clear Anderson is a stickler for detail, the script takes that to another level with very precise descriptions of locations and action that truly do paint a picture of what ends up on screen in words and print, and there’s no denying that, while rather mannered in this instance, the dialogue absolutely fizzes at points…


Read the full review at https://tommygirard.wordpress.com/201...