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 was confirmed that the Hollywood heavyweight would be reuniting with Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos for his next film, Kinds of Kindness . Even better news? Following its recent Cannes premiere , it’ll be hurtling to screens this summer – and three bonkers trailers have already landed.
Stone and Lanthimos, who previously collaborated on the madcap 2018 period drama The Favourite and the mind-bending 2022 short Bleat , are joined by a thrillingly starry ensemble: Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons and Mamoudou Athie. Labelled a sci-fi anthology film, the forthcoming release’s log line describes it as a “triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.” It was penned by Lanthimos and his frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, and given their previous track record – Dogtooth , The Lobster , The Killing of a Sacred Deer – as well as the delightfully strange early images that emerged from the set when filming took place in New Orleans .