The screenplay of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. The French Dispatch brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of a fictional American magazine published in a twentieth-century French city. The film is inspired, in part, by the histories and personalities - the editors and writers - of publications such as the Paris Review , the New York Review of Books and, especially, the New Yorker . In addition to the screenplay, this volume also contains a gallery of images from the film.