Watch a rare deleted scene from Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket

The director’s 1996 debut feature is out now via The Criterion Collection.

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Back in 1996, Wes Anderson announced himself as an exciting new voice in America’s burgeoning indie film scene, adapting his earlier short film into a feature-length heist caper starring the then-unknown Wilson brothers. Martin Scorsese was a fan, hailing the young director as his heir apparent and heaping praise on what he called “a picture without a trace of cynicism, that obviously grew out of its director’s affection for his char­acters in particular and for people in general.”

To celebrate the release of Bottle Rocket through The Criterion Collection, we’ve been granted exclusive access to a rare deleted scene from the film. In it, Owen Wilson rushes outside upon hearing a commotion and begins idly chatting to a local law enforcer – only to end up fleeing the scene himself. Check out the clip below and pick up a copy of the Blu-ray, which features 11 deleted scenes; commentary by Anderson and Owen Wilson; The Making of Bottle Rocket, an original documentary by filmmaker Barry Braverman with interviews with the cast and crew; and the original black-and-white Bottle Rocket short film.

Published 13 Dec 2017

Tags: Luke Wilson Owen Wilson Wes Anderson

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