{"id":23262,"date":"2022-07-23T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/is-bill-murray-about-to-be-canceled-speculation-mounts-after-his-dubious-exit-from-wes-andersons-asteroid-city\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T12:53:45","slug":"is-bill-murray-about-to-be-canceled-speculation-mounts-after-his-dubious-exit-from-wes-andersons-asteroid-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/is-bill-murray-about-to-be-canceled-speculation-mounts-after-his-dubious-exit-from-wes-andersons-asteroid-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Bill Murray About To Be Canceled? Speculation Mounts After His Dubious Exit From Wes Anderson’s ‘Asteroid City’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bill Murray reportedly dropped out of Wes Anderson’s upcoming movie Asteroid City <\/em>after contracting COVID-19, variety <\/em>reports this afternoon. The (formerly?) beloved actor allegedly left the production after being diagnosed with the virus, not long before Asteroid City <\/em>began filming \u2026 last September?!? Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

A source told the outlet that Murray was recast after he contracted COVID-19, and that Steve Carrell eventually replaced him during shooting of the Focus Features production in Spain.<\/p>\n

Murray’s departure from Asteroid City <\/em>is surprising considering his long history of collaboration with Anderson; the two have worked together on Rushmore<\/em>, Moonrise Kingdom, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou,<\/em> The Royal Tenenbaums<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n

His exit also follows Murray’s recent on-set controversy from Aziz Ansari’s film, Being Mortal<\/em>. Production on the project was halted in April over \u201cinappropriate behavior\u201d from Murray, whose interaction with a woman on set led to a formal complaint and a studio investigation.<\/p>\n

Murray shared his side of the incident during an April interview with CNBC, in which he described their interaction as \u201ca difference of opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI did something I thought was funny and it wasn’t taken that way,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThe movie studio wanted to do the right thing so they wanted to check it all out, investigate it and so they stopped the production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sources told variety<\/em> that Murray’s Being Mortal <\/em>incident did not have \u201canything to do with\u201d his exit from Asteroid City<\/em>.<\/p>\n

While Murray reportedly did not film any scenes for Asteroid City <\/em>before he left the film, his comments from the BFI London Film Festival suggest otherwise, as David Franklin pointed out on twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More context: During a screening of The French Dispatch <\/em>at the festival in October 2021, Murray shared details of Asteroid City<\/em>, saying \u201cIt’s the usual cast of characters. We’re shooting it in Spain, about 45 minutes from Madrid. It’s fun out there, we’re having a nice time.\u201d (Quotes per Screen Daily and Collider.)<\/p>\n

So, what gives? If you ask us, something is rotten in Denmark<\/s> spain Let’s go over this one more time.<\/p>\n