Watch Bill Murray's Deleted Scene From Wes Anderson's ASTEROID CITY

Focus Features has released a deleted scene from Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City called “The Missing Bill Murray Part.” Murray was originally supposed to star in the film as the character that Steve Carell played, but he got Covid and had to bow out.

Anderson did say, though, that “when Bill got better, he came to Spain. At the end of the movie [where ‘Asteroid’ shot], we finished the movie, and Bill and I got in a car and drove to France. It was a great way to finish but it was the first time I hadn’t had him in a movie in a long time.”

Anderson and Murray shot this scene when the actor eventually made his way to the set of the film. The director came up with two new characters for Murray to play… Jock Larkings, “the head of the Larkings Corporation, a fictitious armaments-and-aeronautics company in the film,” as well as Tab Whitney, an actor who plays Larkings.

Anderson said: “We made this very peculiar thing that is just a spontaneous creation before the set was going to be struck down. It was the last thing we did. And then we put all our things in the golf cart and drove off into the sunset. It’s an odd little piece, but it does sort of say something I feel about the movie.”

I enjoyed Asteroid City, and it’s great to see Bill Murray’s little appearance in this little clip, which is pretty much like an amusing and quirky trailer for the film. I hope you enjoy it!