Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos are reuniting as soon as once more for a surreal new movie, Poor Issues. The movie is a narrative of “love, discovery and scientific daring” based mostly on Alasdair Gray’s novel of the identical title.

Set within the Victorian period, Poor Issues follows Belle Baxter (Stone), a Frankenstein-like girl introduced again from the lifeless after her mind is changed with that of her unborn little one. Within the first temporary teaser for the movie, a ghostly pale, dark-haired Stone wanders, dances and runs round a dreamlike panorama, at one level saying, “I’m discovering being alive fascinating” earlier than spitting out her meals at a dinner desk.

The movie additionally stars Willem Dafoe because the scientist who brings Belle again to life; the stacked solid additionally consists of Mark Ruffalo, Jerrod Carmichael, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Kathryn Hunter, Suzy Bemba and Wayne Brett.

The position marks Stone’s first main movie function since 2021’s Disney film Cruella, which instructed the origin story of 101 Dalmatians’ iconic villain. It’s her third collaboration with Lanthimos; she acquired an Oscar nod for her flip within the enigmatic Greek director’s 2018 interval drama The Favorite. She’s additionally in his upcoming movie And, which stars Dafoe, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie and Hunter Schafer.

In his 2019 W cowl story (for which he shot Emma Stone with a solid of 15 canine), Lanthimos famous that his “movies are supposed to be considerably disturbing. I desire to shake issues up in an enticing approach.” If the Poor Issues teaser is any indication, that’s precisely what he’s carried out right here: