POOR THINGS: Emma Stone's "Bella" Experiences Everything In New Featurette - NSFW

POOR THINGS: Emma Stone's "Bella" Experiences Everything In New Featurette - NSFW

A new poster and featurette for Yorgos Lanthimos' surreal take on Frankenstein, Poor Things, are now online, and the latter includes some fairly racy new footage...

By MarkCassidy - Aug 31, 2023 07:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Via SFF Gazette

A new poster and featurette for Yorgos Lanthimos' (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) adaptation of Alasdair Gray's bestselling novel, Poor Things, are now online, spotlighting Emma Stone as the "Frankenstein's Monster" of the story, Bella Baxter.

The movie is expected to lean heavily into the book's Frankenstein influences, as Willem Dafoe's disfigured scientist resurrects Emma Stone's character via a very familiar-looking experiment.

Bella then embarks on an adventure with Mark Ruffalo's "slick and debauched lawyer," as she begins to relish being alive and sets out to "experience everything" the world has to offer.

We had been led to believe that this would be a "Victorian-era" tale, but based on what we've seen in the recently-released trailers and TV spots, it seems to be set in more of a Steampunk-inspired alternate reality. 

The featurette includes quite a bit of new footage, some of which is a little on the racy side. It's not particularly graphic, but might still be considered NSFW.

"From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes 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 (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark 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 movie has been rated R for “Strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language."

Poor Things is set to hit theaters for a limited run this September.

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Scripturepoetic
Scripturepoetic - 8/31/2023, 7:33 AM
Whoah!@@!
CerealKiller1
CerealKiller1 - 8/31/2023, 7:55 AM
The synopsis says ‘Free from the prejudices of her time’, so I would assume she dies in Victorian era and comes back in a more modern era
Forthas
Forthas - 8/31/2023, 8:01 AM
Yorgos Lanthimos has a very unique visual style and his movies have a surreal quirk to them that he treats as though it should be taken as seriously as anything else. Can't say I am a big fan of his work so far but I think there is a project that has his name written all over it. I can see him doing an IP in the same vein as Edward Scissorhands.
BringFFtoMCU
BringFFtoMCU - 8/31/2023, 8:09 AM
Why is this article on this site?
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 8/31/2023, 8:14 AM
@BringFFtoMCU - "In 2008, CBM expanded its coverage to include all SciFi,Fantasy and Horror related properties" - https://comicbookmovie.com/about/
braunermegda
braunermegda - 8/31/2023, 8:44 AM
@ClintThaHamster - and this movie fits in which one of those described?
Canon108
Canon108 - 8/31/2023, 8:47 AM
@braunermegda - sci-fi/fantasy...
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 8/31/2023, 9:11 AM
@braunermegda - A movie about a reanimated corpse living in a futuristic steampunk society? How does that fit the definition of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror?
braunermegda
braunermegda - 8/31/2023, 9:42 AM
@Canon108 - I may have been misinterpreted, I genuinely asked which one because it fits in basically all of that. Thank you and sorry if I meant anything else.
braunermegda
braunermegda - 8/31/2023, 9:43 AM
@ClintThaHamster - I may have been misinterpreted, I genuinely asked which one because it fits in basically all of that. Thank you and sorry if I meant anything else.
BringFFtoMCU
BringFFtoMCU - 8/31/2023, 10:11 AM
@ClintThaHamster - Then the name of the site needs to change.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 8/31/2023, 10:36 AM
@braunermegda - Yeah, I agree, it's all three.
Clintthahamster
Clintthahamster - 8/31/2023, 10:37 AM
@BringFFtoMCU - It's a rite of passage in the comments here. I've said the same thing many times before.
Matador
Matador - 8/31/2023, 8:56 AM
a bit of the cringe

TheLobster
TheLobster - 8/31/2023, 10:03 AM
I love Yorgos as a director so I’ll be watching this opening weekend.
Jaspion
Jaspion - 8/31/2023, 10:26 AM
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 8/31/2023, 3:17 PM
Would like to see a more serious take on "The Mummy". Not a fantasy adventure but a horror. Something like The Descent.
EgoEgor
EgoEgor - 8/31/2023, 3:59 PM
Looks like self-masterbatory hipster nonsense.
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