Wes Anderson will re-team with Owen Wilson (though not in the way I had hoped for).

Production Weekly ran a scoop this week on the next live-action film by Wes Anderson. Anderson, who is currently at work on the stop-motion feature The Fantastic Mr. Fox, shall re-team with Owen Wilson on Darjeeling Limited.

Unfortunately, Wilson is not set to co-write Darjeeling with Anderson. Instead, Anderson will work with none other than Jason Schwartzman - a.k.a. Max Fischer himself - and Schwartzman's cousin Roman Coppola on the script; and for those of you who don't know, Coppola's claim to fame (besides being the least-known member of filmdom greatest auteur dynasty) was the little-seen indie film CQ (or 'Seek You'). I definitely recommend it if you haven't seen it yet.

Apparently, Darjeeling Limited is about a trio of brothers who travel through India. Wilson will play one of the brothers, and it might be safe to assume, since Owen has two brothers himself, that Luke and Andrew Wilson could be along for the ride as well.

This all sounds fine and dandy of course. I love Wes Anderson films. I watched the better three-fourths of them last weekend (I'll let you guess which one I omitted), but I am definitely disappointed that Anderson is not writing the script with Owen Wilson. When the two worked on scripts together, the end result was never less than brilliant; but when Wilson got too busy with his acting to help out on the type-writer, the end result was a lukewarm mixed bag.

In the end, I guess a Wes Anderson film without Owen Wilson co-writing the screenplay is better than no Wes Anderson film at all. Maybe.

What do you guys think?