At the 96th Academy Awards, the surreal drama “Poor Things” by Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos (50) just won an impressive four Academy Awards. Among other things, Lanthimos muse Emma Stone (35) received the coveted award for “Best Leading Actress”. It is now clear when the next collaboration between the two creatives will appear in US cinemas: According to Variety, “Kinds of Kindness” will be released on June 21st of this year.
“Poor Things” celebrated its acclaimed world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September last year. The drama, in which Emma Stone’s character Bella Baxter is given the brain of her own unborn child, was awarded a total of four trophies at the Oscars on March 10th, including Stone’s Award for “Best Costume Design” and “Best Make-up”. up”.
In Lanthimos’ follow-up work “Kinds of Kindness”, the newly crowned Oscar winner Stone takes on the leading role. Nothing is currently known about the plot. In addition to Stone, Willem Dafoe (68) and Margaret Qualley (29), who also appear in “Poor Things”, are back in the cast. Jesse Plemons (35), “The Whale” star Hong Chau (44) and Hunter Schafer (25), known from the series “Euphoria”, are also part of the cast.
Filming for “Kinds of Kindness” was completed in New Orleans at the end of 2022. The new film marks Stone and Lanthimos’ fourth collaboration to date, following the Oscar-winning “The Favourite”, “Poor Things” and the short film “Bleat”. A German cinema release date for “Kinds of Kindness” has not yet been set.
