The next film from Emma Stone and Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos will be released in theaters this summer.
The 35-year-old screen star won a Best Actress Oscar for her role in Poor Things and will co-star again with Lanthimos in Kinds of Kindness, which has a June 21 release date.
The new film reunites Stone with her “Poor People” co-stars Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, and also stars Joe Alwyn. Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Hunter Schaefer, Mamoudou Atty.
Lanthimos wrote the screenplay with Efthimis Philippou, with whom he previously worked on The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Dogtooth.
Plot details for “Kinds of Kindness” have so far been kept secret. The film was previously titled “And” and was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana in 2022.
Stone and Lanthimos co-starred in the short film “Bleat'' and “The Favourite,'' for which Olivia Colman won an Academy Award for Best Actress and Stone was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
The two are also set to reunite in another film after Kinds of Kindness, with the new project said to be a remake of the Korean fantasy film Save the Green Planet.
Stone previously explained that their partnership was more about personality than performance. She told Variety magazine: “Yorgos feels that a lot of the process of working with people and putting people in films has to do with who they are as people. It's not just performance-based. It's not.”
In addition to working on two new films with Lanthimos, Stone will also be busy working on Ari Aster's new Western, Eddington, in which he co-stars Joaquin Phoenix.
The film also stars Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, and Austin Butler.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the film, which is expected to be a Western noir comedy starring Phoenix, will be about a small-town New Mexico sheriff who dreams of bigger things in life. .