Emma Stone Will Creep You Out in the 'Poor Things' Trailer". W. May 11, 2023. Archived from the original on May 12, 2023 . Retrieved May 12, 2023. Lewis, Hilary (October 24, 2023). " 'Past Lives,' 'A Thousand and One' and 'All of Us Strangers' Top Gotham Awards Film Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 25, 2023. Kay, Jeremy (November 30, 2021). "Rising star Suzy Bemba joins Yorgos Lanthimos's 'Poor Things' (exclusive)". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021 . Retrieved November 30, 2021. Book Genre: Classics, Cultural, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, Scotland Bella proves to be entirely too much for even a rake like Wedderburn, reducing him to quite a quivering, god-fearing mass.

Rottenberg, Josh (November 11, 2021). "Joel Coen's 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' has big stars. But it's Kathryn Hunter who steals the show". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022 . Retrieved December 10, 2021. White, James (22 May 2021). "Yorgos Lanthimos And Emma Stone Reportedly Reuniting For Frankenstein-Style Tale Poor Things". Empire Online. Archived from the original on 4 February 2021 . Retrieved 22 May 2021. Poor Things will film in Hungary, starring Emma Stone". Budapest Reporter. June 27, 2021. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022 . Retrieved August 24, 2023.Ramy Youssef’s Max McCandless is presumably the film’s version of Archibald McCandless, the narrator of the book. He’s Godwin’s friend and colleague, a good doctor from humble origins, and also a bit of a bore, who gets engaged to Bella before she runs away with Wedderburn. Poor Things is based on a novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. The Scottish writer released the book in 1992, when it won both the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Award. Gray’s novel is fictitious, with loose ties to Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein. Verhoeven, Beatrice (November 16, 2023). "Emma Stone to Receive Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award at Palm Springs International Film Fest". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 16, 2023.

As Lanthimos and Stone gear up for the premiere of Poor Things, here’s what we know about the film so far. We'll cover:D'Alessandro, Anthony (May 22, 2021). "Ramy Youssef In Talks To Join Emma Stone In Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Poor Things' For Searchlight & Film4". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on January 25, 2022 . Retrieved May 22, 2021. There are variations, I guess, but in this film, there's a general tendency to try to control [Bella]—even if it's done in a caring or subtle way, in the way that a parent might or that [Dafoe's character] Baxter does, or just being infatuated in the way that Ramy is. You know, being a nice man deep down, but still having the characteristics of a man of that era." Stone also asserted that "the more agency Bella gets, the more she learns and grows, the more it drives these men insane. The more she has an opinion and her own wants and needs and all of that, it makes them crazy; they want her to stay this sort of pure thing." [21] Filming

Willem Dafoe’s ‘Poor Things’ Makeup Took Six Hours Each Day to Get On: I’d Show Up at 3 A.M., ‘Meditating and Trying to Deal With Standing Still’ Stone further elaborated on Bella's growth reflected through her costumes, detailing how in the beginning of the story, Bella dresses in more traditional clothing of the era, and, following her transformation, begins to dress herself in more bizarre clothes. Stone said: Poor Things premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2023, where it won the Golden Lion, and is scheduled to be released in the United States on December 8, 2023, and in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2024, by Searchlight Pictures. D'Alessandro, Anthony (April 28, 2023). "Emma Stone Reteam With Yorgos Lanthimos 'Poor Things' Sets Early Fall Release". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023 . Retrieved April 28, 2023.The film explores themes of sexuality, feminism and human connection, through the lens of Bella who is relearning everything for the first time. Emma Stone said of the film “ the idea that you could start anew as a woman, as this body that’s already formed, and see everything for the first time and try to understand the nature of sexuality, or power, or money or choice, the ability to make choices and live by your own rules and not society’s - I thought that was a really fascinating world to go into”. Is ‘Poor Things’ based on a true story? The book, however, appends a letter, to be unsealed and read only in 1974 (sixty years after she wrote it) by Victoria "Bella" McCandless, in which she comments on McCandless' story and sets the record straight (or, if you wish, skews it further).