At just 35, Emma Stone now has two best-actress Oscars—and maybe a third isn’t that far off, either. Less than a week after her wonderfully emotional acceptance speech at the 96th Academy Awards, it’s been that the Hollywood heavyweight will be reuniting with director Yorgos Lanthimos for his next film, . Even better news? It’ll be hurtling to screens this summer.
The pair, who previously collaborated on the madcap 2018 period drama and the mind-bending 2022 short , will be joined by a thrillingly starry ensemble: Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, and Mamoudou Athie. Though its plot remains under wraps, the forthcoming release has been described as a sci-fi anthology film, and was penned by Lanthimos and his frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou. Given their previous track record— , , —and that emerged from the set when filming took place in New Orleans in 2022, it promises to be another head-spinningly surreal tale from the audacious Greek auteur.
Lanthimos was characteristically enigmatic when speaking about it at a BFI event back in January, : “We’ve just shot this film… a contemporary film. It’s three different stories, and we’re finishing the edit right now, and I still can’t tell you exactly what it is about. But I also wouldn’t want to tell you what I thought the stories are about because it just makes it so small.
I try not to even think about it during the process, because I’m afraid tha.
