Yorgos Lanthimos Has Shot a Fourth Movie With Emma Stone In Secret
After being nominated for 2018’s The Favourite, Emma Stone returns to the Oscar race this year, once again under the direction of critics’ darling Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek director behind The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, as well as the aforementioned film starring Olivia Colman.
Lanthimos has a new movie out this season, the highly-anticipated Poor Things, which has received outstanding reviews at the Venice Film Festival, catapulting it as one of the top contenders for some of the big Oscar categories. We also know that he has already wrapped production on his next feature, AND (an anthology film), which also stars Stone, along with Margaret Qualley, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, and Willem Dafoe. But in a new interview, Yorgos Lanthimos revealed he’s kept himself busy ever since wrapping AND, because he’s already filmed yet another project.
Speaking to CineEuropa (via Collider), Lanthimos revealed he’s gone back to his homeland, Greece, for this new project that also features Emma Stone. He said that the new film is “much simpler and very different in comparison to Poor Things because that story needed that particular style.” It was also shot by cinematographer Robbie Ryan, but hasn’t announced a title yet, and a release date is still unknown.
In this day and age, Poor Things could crash and burn when it releases in theaters in North America in early December, as audiences won’t be able to embrace such a weird movie, or it could actually turn out to be a massive hit, similar to how Everything Everywhere All At Once performed. Audiences have already proven that they are quite tired of franchises and revisiting old characters, which is part of why Barbie and Oppenheimer performed so well this summer.
Regardless of box office performance, the film is expected to be a major player during awards season, and could be in contention for Best Picture now that the race is a bit more defined (though we still have plenty of months ahead where the tables could turn).
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
