[embedded content] Emma Stone is growing in her next movie role. On Thursday, Searchlight Pictures released the official trailer for director Yorgos Lanthimos' next movie _Poor Things_,

which stars Stone, 34, as a woman named Bella Baxter who is brought back from the dead by a scientist played by Willem Dafoe. As Dafoe's character says in the trailer, Bella's

"brain and her body are not quite synchronized," leading to some quirky moments as she awkwardly learns to wink and dances around. Dafoe's scientist describes the reborn-again

woman as "progressing at an accelerated pace," which appears to quickly prompt Bella's own desire to seek freedom and explore the world. In a trailer filled with odd imagery

synopsis for the film calls it "the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin

Baxter (Dafoe)." Bella proves "eager to learn" under the scientist's supervision but quickly "runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Ruffalo), a slick and debauched

lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation." _NEVER MISS A

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from Stone, Dafoe and Ruffalo, the film also stars Ramy Youssef (_Ramy_), comedian Jerrod Carmichael and Christopher Abbott (_Sanctuary_)._ _ Lanthimos' last feature-length film,

2018's _The Favourite_, also starred Stone and received 10 Oscar nominations. Olivia Colman won Best Actress that year for her role in _The Favourite_, while Stone was nominated for

Best Supporting Actress. Stone, who is a producer on _Poor Things,_ appears to have developed a close collaborative relationship with filmmaker Lanthimos. Both Stone and her_The Favourite_ 

castmate Joe Alwyn, as well as 67-year-old Dafoe, are also working together on the filmmaker's next film _AND_. In May 2022, Stone told reporters in Athens that working with Lanthimos

is "a great gift" after she appeared in his 30-minute short film _Bleat_, released last year. "I don't know if it's the hardest project I've ever done, but it

was definitely a challenge," Stone said at a press conference at the time. "I could talk for hours about the things I like in working with Yorgos." The upcoming movie is

written by Tony McNamara, who wrote both _The Favourite_ and Stone's 2021 Disney movie _Cruella_. _Poor Things _is in theaters Sept. 8.