Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos will direct the film “Kindness”

“Kindness,” a new project in the filmography of director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone, will be released this summer. The film studio behind the film, Sirchlight, has scheduled it for June 21st.

Plot details for Types of Kindness are being kept under wraps for now. But it is known that this will be an anthology film in which Emma Stone will reunite with her co-stars in “The Lost and Lost” (2023) Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley, as well as her partner in the historical fantasy “The Favorite” (2018) Joe Alwyn. In addition, Jesse Plemons, Hong Chau, Hunter Schafer and Mamoudou Athie will join the new project.

Lanthimos co-wrote the script with Efthymis Filippou, with whom he previously worked on thrillers such as Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).

“Kindness” is the fifth film by Stone and Lanthimos after the recent “The Wretched Ones,” a Frankensteinian story that brought Emma her second Oscar as best actress. The film, which was also produced by Sirchlight, won a total of four Academy Awards, including Best Costume Design. Stone played a woman who commits suicide and is brought back to life thanks to a brain transplant for her unborn child. To this day, the film has grossed more than $100 million worldwide.

Stone and Lanthimos also worked together on the 2018 Oscar-winning film The Favorite and the short film Bleat (2022). The most interesting thing is that the director and his muse are already in negotiations to work on the sixth film, a remake of the South Korean fantasy comedy “Save the Green Planet.”

In an interview, Emma explained why she was attracted to collaboration with Lanthimos. “For the most part, Yorgos builds the process of working with people on his films around their personalities. It’s not just performance-based.”