Olivia Colman Will DIY Dev Patel Into a Husband in Wicker

Marvel’s Secret Invasion was a disappointment general, however one in every of its excessive factors was Olivia Colman—a performer who elevates the whole lot she’s forged in. The Oscar winner will workforce up with one other equally charismatic star, Dev Patel, for a really unusual-sounding new romance film.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Wicker will star Colman as a fisherwoman, and Patel will play “her inanimate made-to-order husband” in what’s described as a “twisted romance” set to start filming in 2024. The script is tailored by administrators Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson—their final movie was quirky sci-fi story Save Yourselves—from a brief story, The Wicker Husband, written by Ursula Wills-Jones. (Obviously, The Wicker Man was off the desk for a title.)

Per the commerce: “Colman will play a smelly and ridiculed fisherwoman in a seaside village where, fed up with small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker, who is played by Patel. In an otherwise conservative town, their unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.”

Wicker appears like an interesting mixture of weird and heartfelt, and the 2 leads are definitely impressed casting. Will you be checking this one out when it arrives?

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