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Filed to:alasdair gray C mon, tell me you don t want to see Willem Dafoe do Frankenstein. (Screenshot: Sony Pictures) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Yorgos Lanthimos’ adaptation of the Alasdair Grey’s dark Victorian literature commentary is racking up an impressive cast…and taking what was already a pretty wild premise and ramping it up even further. Deadline reports that along with Emma Stone (who starred in Lanthimos’ ....
Yorgos Lanthimos Enters Negotiations With Willem Dafoe for Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos enters negotiations with Willem Dafoe for Poor Things Just over a month after development on the project was first announced, Yorgos Lanthimos’ adaptation of Poor Things is looking to expand its cast as the four-time Oscar nominee has entered talks with fellow four-Oscar nom Willem Dafoe ( The Lighthouse) to co-star in the film, according to Deadline. The French Dispatch and Robert Eggers for The Northman, as well as appearing in Guillermo del Toro’s star-studded thriller Nightmare Alley and in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter alongside Oscar Isaac. ....
Poor Things, based on the book by Alasdair Gray. The novel is a send-up of Victorian literature and a re-imagining of Frankenstein, in which the monster has been replaced with “Bella Baxter – a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant.” And you have to admit, that already sounds like a Yorgos Lanthimos movie. The news of Poor Things comes to us from Production Weekly (by way of The Film Stage) which also features this whopper of a synopsis: “Ostensibly the memoirs of late-19th-century Glasgow physician Archibald McCandless, the narrative follows the bizarre life of oversexed, volatile Bella Baxter, an emancipated woman, and a female Frankenstein. Bella is not her real name; as Victorian Blessington, she drowned herself to escape her abusive husband, but a surgeon removed the brain from the fetus she was carrying and placed it in her skull, resuscitating her. The revived Bella has the mental age of a child. Engag ....