When it comes to making movies, there are certain recipes that yield more favorable results than others; sprinkling Noah Baumbach over a cup of Adam Driver, for instance, is a fantastic combination, while giving Jared Leto the script to a certain vampire movie is a quick road to food poisoning. Jordan Peele pairs nicely with just about anything.
But one thing is for sure: The more curious the recipe, the more eager your customers will be to chow down, and we doubt it gets more lucrative than Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Favourite); indeed, the latest trailer for such a result, Poor Things, certainly suggests such a thing.
Dafoe certainly tries his best to one-up such a recipe as Dr. Goldwin Baxter, who cooks up the equation for successful human resurrection. The result is Stone’s Bella Baxter, a woman who Goldwin brings back from the dead, and who is initially unfamiliar with the relative lack of prejudice she’s facing in comparison to her own time. Bright-eyed and curious about this new world, Bella runs off with seedy lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), hoping that the liberation she woke up to can go even further.
Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, and Kathryn Hunter also star in the film, which boasts a script from Tony McNamara, who also collaborated with Lanthimos and Stone on the Academy Award-nominated The Favourite.
Poor Things will release in theaters on Sept. 8.