Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel face off in first trailer for pop star epic Mother Mary

Anne Hathaway plays a pop star and Michaela Coel her estranged fashion designer in the first trailer for highly anticipated drama Mother Mary.

The film comes from David Lowery, whose previous films range from The Green Knight to A Ghost Story to Pete’s Dragon. His last film was Disney+ original Peter Pan & Wendy starring Jude Law.

It’s been described as a “psychosexual pop thriller” about the strained relationship between the pair as they reunite to create a dress. A recent interview with Hathaway in Vogue describes her character as “a sort of Gaga-Taylor Swift hybrid”.

Production started on the film in Germany in May 2023 and the film will be released in April 2026. The original music has been written and produced by Charli xcx, Jack Antonoff and FKA twigs with Hathaway providing her own vocals.

Lowery has called it a “weird, weird film” that is partly inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He has also compared it to like shooting Apocalypse Now.

“It is a movie I am sure will provoke a lot of strong feelings, in every possible direction,” Lowery said last year. “It feels very true to who I am, and very close to me, but it is also consistently surprising me in ways that I did not anticipate.”

Next year promises to be a big one for both Hathaway and Coel. Hathaway will also appear in comedy sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2, action-adventure Flowervale Street, Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity, and Christopher Nolan’s star-studded epic The Odyssey.

Coel, whose last acting credits were smaller roles in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and TV’s Mr and Mrs Smith, stars alongside Ian McKellen in comedy drama The Christophers, which premiered at this year’s Toronto film festival and will be released next year. She is also working on First Day on Earth, her much-anticipated small screen follow-up to I May Destroy You.

Charli xcx is also providing the music for Emerald Fennell’s new take on Wuthering Heights, which is out in February. She will also play a version of herself in satirical comedy The Moment out in January.