The film stars Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo.
After watching the first trailer of the film, the official poster of the film is available online. Poor thingsnew film by Yorgos Lanthimos featuring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe AND Mark Ruffalo. Director’s new film DarlingOscar-winning actress plays Bella Baxter, young woman brought back to life the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Wille Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella strives to learn. Eager for the worldly life she has been denied, Bella flees with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a dandy and depraved lawyer, on a fast-paced journey across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her time, Bella becomes unwavering in her determination to stand for equality and liberation. The film is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name, inspired by the story Frankenstein.
Poor things: Emma Stone at the center of Yorgos Lanthimos’ official movie poster
The film marks the reunion of the screenwriter. Tony McNamara and Lanthimos, as well as Stone, since all three worked together not only in Darlingbut McNamara also wrote the screenplay for Stone’s film, Cruella. In 2018, Emma Stone starred in the historical drama The Favourite, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Supporting Actress. The rest of the cast consists of Jerrod Carmichael like Harry Astley Rami Youssef like Max McCandless Christopher Abbott like Sir Aubrey de la Pole Blessington, Margaret Qualley, Katherine Hunter, Susie Bemba AND Wayne Brett. Lanthimos directed and produced “Poor thingsWritten by Tony McNamara. The film was produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, with an Irish-British company developing the project with Film4. Directed and executive produced by Emma Stone (with Fruit Tree Banner). The film will hit theaters in September.
Element Pictures Fruit Tree Film4 Productions