New Trailer for Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe's Frankenstein-Inspired Film POOR THINGS

Searchlight Pictures has released a new full trailer for Poor Things, which is a reimagining of the classic Frankenstein story. The movie comes from writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Favorite,The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dogtooth), and it stars Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo.

This looks like a very interesting and unique movie, and I especially like the fantastical visual style of the story. In that story, Stone plays a woman who’s brought back to life by a Dr. Frankenstein-like character played by Dafoe.

This movie is based on the 1992 novel by Alistair Gray, and in the story, “the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.”

The character of Baxter is brought back to life after her brain is replaced with that of her unborn child, so that takes the whole thing to a wild level of weirdness.

Stone recently sat down with W Magazine to talk about the film and said: "My character Bella is a bit of a Frankenstein, but she's also a bit of an experiment in the sense that everything is happening very rapidly on her. So her hair grows about two inches every couple of days. It had to get longer and longer quickly because that's what happened in the book."

Poor Things also stars Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbot, and Mark Ruffalo. The film will be released only in theaters on September 8, 2023. The movie is rated “R” for “Strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language.”