Kirsten Dunst and Mikey Madison Mermay Fall in Love In a New Movie

Last month, we learned Mikey Madison, caller disconnected her Best Actress Oscar triumph for Anora, declined to articulation the formed of Star Wars: Starfighter. Now, we cognize what her adjacent large relation is, and it’s an absorbing one: Reptilia, a movie astir mermaids.

Per the Hollywood Reporter, this is simply a “unique thriller” wherein a dental hygienist winds up “seduced by a mysterious mermaid into the acheronian and bedewed underworld of Florida’s exotic carnal trade.” Madison’s costar is Kirsten Dunst, precocious of Civil War and the upcoming Roofman, and according to THR’s Borys Kit, she’ll beryllium the 1 doing the seducing. The film, which begins accumulation successful the fall, comes courtesy of manager Alejandro Landes Echavarría, manager of 2019’s warfare thriller Monos, working disconnected a publication helium cowrote with Duke Merriman.

Not counting the recent Little Mermaid remake, it’s been a portion since we’ve had a large movie astir the undersea people. But we’re successful an epoch wherever classical monsters similar vampires and mummies are coming back to the metallic surface (or Netflix), truthful Reptilia is coming successful astatine a bully time. Can’t hold to spot much astir it, and what a mermaid’s doing implicit successful Florida, successful the coming months

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