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THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

screenplay by

WES ANDERSON

story by

WES ANDERSON & HUGO GUINNESS

INTRODUCTION

by Hugo Guinness

I remember in Paris, 2007, Wes and I spent some time in restaurants and cafés and on walks in public parks discussing a mutual friend of ours. We talked about the things he said, his life, his mannerisms. He was an unusual character – full of anecdotes, charm, and bon mots.

He made us laugh.

Wes would write occasional casual notes about him. I then returned to New York and heard nothing from Wes about this character for five or six years. He was forgotten.

In 2012, out of the blue, Wes revived him.

We worked together over a period of several weeks and then multiple telephone calls. The character became M. Gustave H, the bisexual concierge of a hotel in middle Europe. A plot was devised around him, and dialogue was written, inch by inch. I would offer the occasional comment and answer Wes’s hypothetical questions. If an idea or a line of dialogue by me actually got into the script, it was a good day. Mostly I just listened, and my suggestions were ignored. In a few short weeks, the script was finished, and Wes was off to East Germany to shoot The Grand Budapest Hotel.

FOOTNOTE

by Wes Anderson

Hugo has either deliberately or involuntarily distorted the above account of our collaboration.

I do not recall him ever being satisfied to see his suggestions ignored. He would, instead, become extremely moody and irritated in those instances, which usually makes him slightly funnier, and it’s when he came up with some of our best bits.

Also, he is not inclined to sit back and listen. His instinct, I find, is to disagree and say something slightly belittling.

His critic ism is always insightful and pointed, not to say cruel, which helps it stick in the mind, often permanently. His contribution to this story should not be underestimated by anyone other than himself.

Cast and Crew

The Grand Budapest Hotel was first shown at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014 Fox Searchlight Pictures in association with Indian Paintbrush and Studio Babelsberg present An American Empirical Picture PRINCIPAL CAST

M. GUSTAVE Ralph Fiennes

ZERO MOUSTAFA Tony Revolori

MR. MOUSTAFA Murray Abraham

SERGE X. Mathieu Amalric

DMITRI Adrien Brody

JOPLING Willem Dafoe

DEPUTY KOVACS Jeff Goldblum

LUDWIG Harvey Keitel

YOUNG WRITER Jude Law

M. IVAN Bill Murray

HENCKELS Edward Norton

AGATHA Saoirse Ronan

M. JEAN Jason Schwartzman

CLOTILDE Léa Seydoux

MADAME D. Tilda Swinton

AUTHOR Tom Wilkinson

M. CHUCK Owen Wilson

PRINCIPAL CREW

Directed by Wes Anderson

Produced by Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson

Director of Photography Robert Yeoman A. S. C.

Edited by Barney Pilling

Production Designer Adam Stockhausen

Costume Designer Milena Canonero

Music by Alexandre Desplat

Music Supervisor Randall Poster

Special Photography Unit Roman Coppola

Casting Directors Douglas Aibel, Jina Jay

The Grand Budapest Hotel

EXT. CEMETERY. DAY

The present. A graveyard in the city center of a great Eastern European capital. Frost covers the ground among the stones and between rows of leafless trees. A teenage girl in a beret and trench-coat with a well-read, dog-eared novel called The Grand Budapest Hotel tucked under her arm stands facing a tarnished bust of a slender, balding, spectacled old man. A bronze plaque below reads, in large letters: