‘Kinds Of Kindness’: Everything We Know So Far About Emma Stone’s Next Yorgos Lanthimos Film, Co-Starring Hunter Schafer and Joe Alwyn

Stone and Lanthimos, who previously collaborated on the madcap 2018 period drama The Favourite and the mind-bending 2022 short Bleat, are joined by a thrillingly starry ensemble: Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, and Mamoudou Athie.

Labeled a sci-fi anthology film, the forthcoming release’s log line describes it as a “triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.” It was penned by Lanthimos and his frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, and given their previous track record—Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer—as well as the delightfully strange early images that emerged from the set when filming took place in New Orleans in 2022, it promises to be another head-spinningly surreal tale from the audacious Greek auteur.