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The production team is building sets at Origo Studios, close to the centre of Budapest Author: Nia Daniels
Published: 9 Jun 2021
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos is in pre-production on his next feature, Poor Things, currently setting up at Origo Studios, Hungary.
Adapted from the novel by Alasdair Grey, the film is from Element Pictures, Searchlight and Film4 and stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef and Willem Dafoe. Variety recently reported that Jerrod Carmichel has also joined the cast.
Lanthimos, who also produces alongside Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element, and Stone for her banner Fruit Tree, is calling the shots from a screenplay by Tony McNamara; the pair previously worked together on The Favourite, also starring Stone.
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