by Nathaniel R
Today on Instagram, Florence Pugh shared the first image from The Wonder, a thriller from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio. Lelio, as you may recall, had a truly sensational three film run circa 2013-2017 with the marvelous character study Gloria, the Oscar-winning trans drama A Fantastic Woman, and the Jewish lesbian drama Disobedience. He interrupted that amazing run of originals by remaking his own international breakthrough film as Gloria Bell with Julianne Moore which was good if not as magical as the original. Now he's finally back to work...
Pugh writes:
We’ve been traipsing around the Irish hills for the last week and it’s truly been a magnificent start to a beautiful and exciting film. What a story to get our teeth stuck into, what a crew to be working alongside and a fantastic director Sebastian Lelio to be leading us!
This will be fun.
Since they've only been at work for a week this will surely be a 2022 picture. IMDb describes it as "A tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil." In addition to Pugh, the cast includes Ciarán Hinds, Toby Jones, Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, and Brian F O'Byrne. We wish it weren't so generically titled (in the past nine years we've had films called To The Wonder, The Wonders, and Wonder) but what can you do.
Lelio supposedly has his next picture lined up already (even though they just started this one) and it will be headlined by that other Black Widow star, Scarlett Johansson. It's a sci-fi pic called Bride and sounds like some sort of a riff on the Frankenstein myth and themes.
Are you looking forward to these two pictures now that you know about them?