Following The Marvels, director Nia DaCosta reunites with her Little Woods leading lady Tessa Thompson for Hedda. And it looks like this reunion is going to be totally swoon-worthy.
DaCosta serves as writer and helmed on Hedda, a daring re-invention of Henrik Ibsen’s 1890 play Hedda Gabler. Thompson stars as the eponymous heroine, a married socialite who seems to have it all. But when a former flame reappears, she’s forced to confront both her past and present in a deliciously dramatic fashion.
As the logline of the film reads, “Over the course of one charged night, long-repressed desires and hidden tensions erupt—pulling her and everyone around her into a spiral of manipulation, passion, and betrayal.”
One noticeable difference between Hedda and Hedda Gabler is that DaCosta has flipped the gender of Hedda’s ex. In Ibsen’s play, Eilert Lövborg is a man. In Hedda, Eileen Lövborg is all woman, played by Nina Hoss (Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World).
From the teaser, it’s clear she and Thompson have chemistry. The first audiences to get to see this romance in full will be at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month. Stay tuned to Mashable, where we’ll be running reviews, reactions, and more out of the fest.
Following Hedda‘s TIFF premiere, the movie will open in select theaters on Oct. 22, then debut globally on Prime Video on Oct. 29.
