The Favourite, is scripting.
Based on a 1992 novel by
Alasdair Gray, considered one of the finest and most visionary Scottish authors,
Poor Things is a Victorian-set tale heavily inspired by Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein. Stone plays a young woman named Bella, brought back to life by the brilliant scientist Godwin Baxter (Dafoe). In the novel, Bella is reanimated by a grotesque brain transplant from the foetus she is carrying, with Godwin intending her to be his romantic companion. But soon, Bella becomes more sexually curious and interested in other men, and elopes across Europe with the characters to be played by Ruffalo, and then Youssef. The novel, which is told in an epistolary form, was described as “magnificently brisk, funny, dirty [and] brainy” in a contemporary review by the