Society’s fascination with darkish pop star tales isn’t going anyplace anytime quickly. On the heels of 2018’s Natalie Portman-starring Vox Lux, HBO and The Weeknd’s forthcoming The Idol, and Donald Glover’s Beyoncé-stan skewering Swarm comes a brand new entry into the class.
A24 has introduced Mom Mary, a brand new movie from Inexperienced Knight director David Lowery billed as an “epic pop melodrama” following a fictional musician (Anne Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic designer (I Could Destroy You’s Michaela Coel), Deadline studies.
The all-star casting has already piqued curiosity on-line, which is additional buoyed by the involvement of Charli XCX and producer-to-the-pop-stars Jack Antonoff. Charli and Antonoff will write and produce authentic songs for the movie, with an authentic rating composed by Daniel Hart. Mom Mary will likely be filmed in Germany with a launch date nonetheless to be decided.
Hathaway most lately starred in a gritty adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen that had a critically-acclaimed premiere at Sundance; she’ll additionally star in Mom’s Intuition with Jessica Chastain and an Amazon movie, The Thought of You, later this 12 months. We additionally know that Hathaway will be capable to deal with no matter vocal necessasties the half requires. She beforehand received the Oscar for her half within the musical Les Misérables.
Coel shot to fame following the discharge of her hit TV sequence, I Could Destroy You, for which she grew to become the primary Black girl to win an Emmy for Excellent Writing. She additionally starred in final 12 months’s Black Panther: Wakanda Eternally, and this 12 months she’ll additionally seem in Donald Glover’s remake of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
The fictional and documentary obsession with the tales of nice musical figures has all the time been a part of the tradition, from A Star Is Born’s generational installments to Behind the Music. After the #FreeBritney motion spawned two separate docu-series (and limitless TikToks) on the pop singer’s plight, the journeys of feminine pop stars particularly stay a tried and true space to mine for tales. Keep tuned for additional particulars on Mom Mary and this newest iteration of pop melodrama.
