Emma Stone returns to work with Yorgos Lanthimos in “Poor Thing”

If there is one thing that has never scared Emma Stone it is the transformation into characters very different from itself. From tennis player Billie Jean King of Battle of the sexes to the new Cruella De Mon punk rock that we will see in Cruella, this time, however, the challenge is even greater as the actress will lend her face to the first woman Frankenstein in the history of cinema. It will happen in Poor Thing, the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos, who had previously worked with her in the Favorite, inspired by a 1992 novel written by Whitbread Award winner Alasdair Gray.

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The plot is all about Bella Baxter, a “fickle, hypersexualized, emancipated and modern female Frankenstein” woman who, after drowning to escape the grip of an abusive husband, returns to life thanks to a transplant that puts the brain of the daughter she was carrying in her womb in place of her . At work on this story, that the Los Angeles Times says he sees perfect for Lanthimos’ dark and somewhat controversial soul, there is Tony McNamara, the screenwriter who had already collaborated with him in the Favorite, and Searchlight Pictures, which announced that filming will begin next fall.

It is curious, however, that Poor Thing will have to deal with another film that investigates a similar theme: it is Bride, the new film produced by Apple and directed by Chilean director Sebastián Lelio which will see Scarlett Johansson the protagonist of a story inspired by that of Frankenstein’s wife by James Whale. Since there are no Frankensteinized women in the cinema, we will even have two fighting at the box office and the bet on who will win the other promises to be more than interesting.