Emma Stone And Yorgos Lanthimos' Next Film Has Been Revealed
16-03-2024
Emma Stone and Yorgos Langthimos may have been separated by a burning planet, but they've found each other. The pairing of "La La Land's" Emma Stone and "The Lobster's" Yorgos Lanthimos was not obvious, but they are already joining Hepburn and Cukor, Stewart and Hitchcock and De Niro and Scorsese as one of the greatest actor-director pairs. The Favourite, "Poor Things" and Bleat are just a few of the films that these two have worked on together.
Stone won the Best Actress Oscar for "Poor Things" just a few days ago, but we already have a date set for their next project. In a matter of months, the duo is returning with "Kinds of Kindness," which they shot in 2022 and previously went by "And." The little that we have heard about it so far makes the film sound incredibly interesting.
You'll have to wait only a few more months, as Searchlight Pictures, which also produced "The Favourite", "Poor Things" and other films, has scheduled the release for early summer. It's true -- the Lanthimos films will be released in the midst of summer blockbuster season.
Kinds of Kindness is a strange film from Stone and Lanthimos.
What is the "Kinds of Kindness?" campaign? Great question! Lanthimos has kept the details of the film under wraps for now, describing the movie to The Guardian simply as "a modern American film with three stories and four to five actors playing one role in each. So they play three separate parts." "It was like filming three movies, in a way." Stone's "Poor Things," co-stars Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn will join her in the cast, as well as Hong Chau, Jesse Plemons and Mamoudou athie. Hunter Schafer, who starred in "Euphoria," is also joining Stone.
It's true that anthology movies like "Kinds of Kindness", can be mixed blessings. There are many good anthology films (Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” is a great example) but their quality can vary widely. If one chapter doesn't work for you, the rest of the movie may still be enjoyable. The film is also the first Lanthimos co-wrote with Efthimis Filipou, his longtime collaborator since "The Killing of a Sacred Deer." It may be a bit more controversial than Lanthimos' previous two films with Stone and Tony McNamara. If this film is Stone's answer to Barry Keoghan stuffing spaghetti into his mouth, it will be worth the effort.
The weirdness of "Kinds Of Kindness" is set to be revealed in cinemas on 21 June 2024.