Yorgos Lanthimos

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them actor Colin Farrell is reuniting with Yorgos Lanthimos, his director from last year’s The Lobster, for an upcoming Amazon Studios limited series about the Iran-Contra scandal.

Fargo’s Kirsten Dunst is heading back to television for AMC’s dark comedy series On Becoming a God in Central Florida. The project comes from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, Sony’s TriStar Television, and AMC Studios, with The Lobster helmer Yorgos Lanthimos set to direct. Dunst will star in the series and executive produce.

This marks the second collaboration between the actor and director who worked together on The Lobster which was also acquired up by A24 last year at Cannes.

Follows a charismatic surgeon named Steven and a teenage boy who wants to bring him into his dysfunctional and fractured family. The teenage boy’s intentions become increasingly evil which forces Steven to make an unexpected sacrifice.

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Weisz is in talks to replace Kate Winslet in the Queen Anne period film The Favourite. The casting would reunite Weisz with director Yorgos Lanthimos.

The inner workings of the political monster that was the reign of Queen Anne are displayed as court members jockey for favor.

Hot off his success with The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos is drawing A-listers to his next project, The Favourite and quickly becoming one of Europe’s hottest directors.

In a future where single people must find a mate in 45 days or risk being turned into an animal, a man and woman start a forbidden romance in the woods outside of their city.

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Logline: In a future where single people must find a mate in 45 days or risk being turned into an animal, a man and woman start a forbidden romance in the woods outside of their city.

Logline: The story follows a nurse who is part of a group known as Alpis, whose members provide a particular service that offers to replace the everyday exchanges of deceased individuals to their families.