Wes Anderson talks 'The Phoenician Scheme,' Gene Hackman and his Cannes bus

With remarkable regularity, Anderson has been crafting movies uniquely his own since his 1996 debut, “Bottle Rocket.” There are variations. Some are expansive family dramas (“The Royal Tenenbaums”). Some are more intimate (“Rushmore”). Some are more densely layered (“Asteroid City”). “The Phoenician Scheme,” a leaner tale which Focus Features will release May 30, is Anderson working in high comic gear. A playful and poignant kind of thriller, it stars Benicio Del Toro as the tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda, who decides to name his daughter heir to his dubiously accrued fortune.