Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo has joined Emma Stone in the cast of “Poor Things,” the next film from “The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos, Searchlight Pictures announced Friday.Willem Dafoe has also joined the film that’s set up at Searchlight and Film4.
Lanthimos’ film is an adaptation of the novel “Poor Things” by Alasdair Grey. Tony McNamara, the screenwriter on “The Favourite” and the Hulu series “The Great,” is writing the script.“Poor Things” is set in the Victorian era and stars Stone as Belle Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by an eccentric, brilliant scientist. “Poor Things” is produced by Stone’s Fruit Tree with Ali Herting and Dave McCary.
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