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The Favourite director Yorgos Lanthimos and Searchlight Pictures are looking to stay in business with each other as the studio is greenlighting his next film AND. Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley are set to star. With a script developed by Element Pictures and Film4 and penned by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou, the film is produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element, along with Kasia Malipan and Lanthimos. Ollie Madden and Daniel Battsek are executive producing for Film4, which co-financed the project. It begins principal photography in New Orleans next month. Plot details are being kept under wraps.

The film marks another reunion for the filmmaker with Element Pictures, Searchlight and Film4 following their collaboration on the Oscar-winning The Favourite and Poor Things, currently in post-production.

Lanthimos’ track record over the last decade has been nothing short of superb with credits that include The Lobster, which was nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, both also produced by Element. His feature Dogtooth won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2011 Oscars.

Stone also reunites following The Favourite, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award. For Searchlight, she previously starred in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Battle of the Sexes and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Stone won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Damien Chazelle’s La La Land. She is also staring in Lanthimos’ upcoming Poor Things, and will next be seen starring in and producing, through her Fruit Tree banner, The Curse with Showtime and A24.

Dafoe recently starred in Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley as well as Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, both for Searchlight He has been nominated for multiple Oscars including for his roles in At Eternity’s Gate, The Florida Project, Shadow of the Vampire and Platoon. Dafoe’s upcoming projects include Walter Hill’s Dead for a Dollar, Vasilis Katsoupis’ Inside, Lanthimos’ Poor Things and Patricia Arquette’s Gonzo Girl. His recent projects also include Robert Eggers’ The Northman and Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Plemons was recently nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog. He also previously starred in Scott Cooper’s Antlers for Searchlight, and Jungle Cruise and Judas and the Black Messiah. Other credits includ The Irishman, Vice, The Post, Bridge of Spies and The Master. Plemons will next be seen starring in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

Qualley has had an exciting year going back to her acclaimed role in Netflix’s limited series Maid. The part has earned her several nominations including a recent Emmy nom for leading actress in a limited series. On the film side, her pic Stars at Noon premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, winning the Grand Prix – A24 will release it this fall; and her film Sanctuary, recently acquired by Neon, opened at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month. She recently wrapped production on Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, in which she will star with Demi Moore.

Here's what David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, the presidents of Searchlight Pictures, said about the upcoming film: "Working with Yorgos continues to be a highlight for us at Searchlight, and this is yet another truly original project that sets his work apart. Working again with Emma, Willem, Jesse, and Margaret, as well as Element and Film4, is just icing on the cake."

Poor Things will premiere sometime in 2023. Additionally, And is expected to debut in 2024.