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Anderson's longtime collaborating producer Steven Rales and his company Indian Paintbrush produced the film. Alexandre Desplat returned to compose the score, his seventh collaboration with Anderson.
This marks the sixth feature film co-written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola.
This is Anderson’s tenth collaboration with Bill Murray, and sixth with Willem Defoe.
Anderson decided to write a story about the Near East after the death of his father-in-law, Lebanese engineer Fouad Malouf, to whom the film is dedicated. When Malouf's health began failing, he showed Anderson's wife a series of shoeboxes he had used to organize his files and memories. Anderson adapted the shoeboxes for his film, where Zsa-Zsa Korda uses shoeboxes to organize his business plans.
Zsa-Zsa's lavish palazzo, fondness for art collecting, and nickname "Mr. Five Percent", are borrowed from Armenian oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian. In addition, the name, look, and British manner of Zsa-Zsa's brother Nubar are borrowed from Gulbenkian's son Nubar Gulbenkian. Anderson mentioned businessmen Aristotle Onassis, Stavros Niarchos, Gianni Agnelli and William Randolph Hearst as additional influences.
Benicio Del Toro said that he accepted the role based on 20 pages of the script that Wes Anderson sent him, which was the first sequence of his character with his daughter. "It was so rich and detailed, original and funny and sad. It was just so layered. As an actor, you're looking for parts like this. When they come, you just bite and don't let go."
French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel shot on 35 mm film, marking his first feature-length collaboration with Anderson. This was the first live-action film to not be shot by his regular cinematographer Robert Yeoman.
The movie was entirely shot at Babelsberg Studio in Germany, from mid-March to early June 2024. As director Wes Anderson famously dislikes green screens, LED panels were used to display clouds during the plane scenes.
Historically, Phoenicia referred to a region that today encompasses Lebanon and Syria. The fictional Phoenicia as depicted in the film roughly corresponds to the wider Levantine region as it was defined in the first half of the 20th century. Prince Farouk's kingdom is Jordan; Marseille Bob's nightclub is in French Algeria; the canal Zsa-zsa crosses over is the Suez Canal; Hilda's "Private Utopian Outpost" is an Israeli kibbutz; the hotel where the summit is held is in Luxor, Egypt; and Marty's ship is on the Mediterranean.
Anderson used several real-life paintings as props, including Renoir's Enfant Assis en Robe Bleue, once owned by Greta Garbo, and Magritte's The Equator from the collection of the Berlin State Museums. A few paintings from the Hamburger Kunsthalle also appear, among them one by Floris van Schooten and one by Juriaen Jacobsze. However, some of the paintings used in the film were replicas, including a Rubens. Jasper Sharp, a historian and curator at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, curated and sourced the authentic artworks used in the film.
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