Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau Direct Yorgos Lanthimos' Next Film 'ET'

Update October 12: Variety has announced that Hong Chau has joined the cast of Yorgos Lanthimos' mysterious new film, "And." Chau will soon be seen in Darren Aronofsky's Oscar nominee "The Whale" as Brendan Fraser's character caretaker. A24 releases the film on December 9. Chau received Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe Award nominations for his performance in Alexander Payne's "Downsizing" in 2017

September 29: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos will be collaborating for the fourth time on a new film called 'AND'. Principal photography begins in New Orleans from October 2022, but plot details have been kept tightly under wraps.

After picking up an Oscar nomination for 'The Favourite', Stone has signed on to direct Lanthimos' upcoming Frankenstein female-drama comedy 'Poor Things', which is currently in post-production. Stone also starred in the Lanthimos short "Bleat".

Stone's "Poor Things" co-stars Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley are also set to join her in "AND" alongside Oscar-nominated Jesse Plemons for "The Power of the Dog."

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"AND" is the latest collaboration between Lanthimos and Searchlight Pictures, with a screenplay developed by Element Pictures and Film4, and written by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. The film is produced by Element's Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, with Kasia Malipan and writer-director Lanthimos. Ollie Madden and Daniel Battsek are executive producers for Film4, which co-financed the project.

"Working with Yorgos continues to be a highlight for us at Searchlight, and it's yet another truly original project that sets his work apart," Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield said in a statement. joint statement. "Working again with Emma, ​​Willem, Jesse and Margaret as well as Element and Film4 is just the icing on the cake."

Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element added: "This is our fifth film with Yorgos and we are thrilled to reunite again with Searchlight and Film4 on this brilliant screenplay by Yorgos and Efthmis. Yorgos has attracted a cast and an incredible team and we're dying to get started."

Meanwhile, “Poor Things” stars Stone as Bella Baxter, “a volatile, hypersexed, emancipated woman and Frankenstein woman,” according to an official synopsis, who is resurrected with the brains of her child to be born after drowning herself to escape her abusive husband. Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef and Jerrod Carmichael also star.

"Poor Things" is written by "The Favorite" co-writer Tony McNamara, who is also the showrunner of Hulu's "The Great." The film will be an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray.

'Bleat' was Lanthimos' fourth short film, following 2019's 'Nimic', about a professional cellist whose encounter with a stranger has surreal repercussions. The short starred Matt Dillon, Daphne Patakia and Susan Elle, and was released after "The Favorite". "Bleat" marks Lanthimos' first return to film after a three-year hiatus.

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