Director Director David Lowery referred to as Mom Mary, his upcoming film, “a bizarre, bizarre movie.” That is sensible, on condition that A24 is distributing they usually’re recognized for pushing the envelope within the identify of creativity.
Lowery has some nice companions to assist deliver this imaginative and prescient to life: Anne Hathaway performs a larger-than-life pop star who has a tense reunion with a former buddy and costume designer performed by Michaela Coel. The film doesn’t skimp on the musical parts, as Charli XCX, Jack Antonoff, and FKA Twigs contribute music to the movie, whereas Twigs additionally has an appearing position.
Forward of the film’s launch, hold studying for the whole lot you have to know earlier than it hits theaters.
Plot
The logline reads, “Lengthy-buried wounds rise to the floor when iconic pop star Mom Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites together with her estranged greatest buddy and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback efficiency.”
Whereas talking on the Australian Centre For The Transferring Picture in 2024 (as IndieWire notes), Lowery stated the film is “a bizarre, bizarre movie” and continued:
“I wrote the primary 20 pages once I was taking pictures Peter Pan And Wendy and it’s been percolating ever since. That film was enormous, it was one of many best shoots of my life and one of many hardest edits of my life and it impressed quite a lot of soul looking. After that, I made a decision I’m simply going to do one thing easy. I have to do a film with simply two actors in a room having an extended coronary heart to coronary heart, […] a extremely mild filmmaking expertise.
However then I believed, ‘What if a type of characters is a pop star? And what if we began at a stadium? Then it received larger [laughs]. And once more, it wound up being the toughest factor I’ve ever executed.”
Forged
The film stars Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel, Hunter Schafer, Atheena Frizzell, Kaia Gerber, Jessica Brown Findlay, Alba Baptista, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs.
Hathaway informed Vogue of getting ready for the movie:
“What struck me immediately, studying the script, is which you could’t ‘carry out’ Mom Mary. If I received the half, I must grow to be materials David may craft with. […] I needed to undergo being a newbie. The humility of that — exhibiting up daily figuring out you’re going to suck. And it must be okay. You’re not ‘unhealthy.’ You’re only a newbie. Attending to that mindset — I needed to shed some issues that have been laborious to shed. It was welcome. But it surely was laborious, the way in which transformational experiences might be laborious.”
Launch Date
The movie is about to hit theaters in April 2026.
Trailer
Watch the Mom Mary trailer beneath.
