Pop Go the Girls

When I finally got around to watching Michaela Coel's series I May Destroy You, fairly late into its awards-run a couple of years back, I totally got it -- it deserved all of the praise. Coel's got an incredible voice, and she should be getting all of the opportunities that Phoebe Waller-Bridge got in the wake of Fleabag. The clock's ticking on that but this is good news we're excited about that hit yesterday -- Coel will co-star opposite Anne Hathaway in the new movie from The Green Knight director David Lowery! After Knight and especially A Ghost Story I will follow Lowery to the ends of the earth, so it's his involvement that really tips the scales for me here, although I will admit I fell back in love with Annie after we took a little bit of a break thanks to her work in the fantastically trashy fun lesbian-thriller Eileen that played Sundance (here is my review).

Specifics-wise what we know is that the movie is titled Mother Mary and Lowery himself wrote the script, which they say is "an epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship with an iconic fashion designer (Coel)." So more lesbian antics! Yeehaw, baby. Nothing but gay stories from here to forever, please. People on social media seem to be excited that the pop music being written for the film is being written by Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX but those names mean very little to me since I am desperately unhip when it comes to pop music. Antonoff is the cute hipster who dated Lena Dunham back during Girls right? But far more important to me is the orchestral score for the movie will be written by Lowery's frequent collaborator Daniel Hart, whose scores for A Ghost Story and The Green Knight rank among my favorites of the past decade. Christ that was all so nerdy. Oh well.