Olivia Colman and Dev Patel's next movie is a twisted romance giving new meaning to 'wicker man'

Olivia Colman and Dev Patel
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Olivia Colman has set her next movie &nda𓃲sh; a☂nd she's starring alongside Dev Patel in an, uh, unconventional romance.  

The official logline reads: "On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman (Colman); smelly, sing🐓le, and perpetually ridiculed. One d♚ay, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker (Patel). In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy, and chaos." Neither actor is a stranger to offbeat stories, having worked with directors like Yorgos Lanthimos and Wes Anderson between them.

Based on The Wicker Husband, the short story by Ursula Wills-Jones, Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson a🌱re directing. The pair previously helmed Save Yourselves!, a sci-fi comedy starring Search Party's John Reynolds and GLOW's Sunita Mani that was released in 2020 and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at that year's Sundance Film Festival. ♏;

Colman has a few other movies in the works, including dark comedy Wicked Little Letters alongside her The Lost Daughter co-star Jessie Buckley, Wonka, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Paddington 3 (officially titled Paddington in Peru). 

Patel, meanwhile, most recently starred in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Anderson's Roaldꦚ Dah🐼l short films on Netflix, and he's set to make his directorial debut with Monkey Man, an action-thriller that he'll also star in. The cast also includes 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:District 9's Sharlto Copley, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:John Wick producer Basil Iwanyk i༺s on board behind th𝄹e scenes.

Wicker doesn't have a release date yet. While we wait, check out our guide to the other biggest 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies on the way in 2023 and beyond.

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