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Hey, you want to see Anne Hathaway singing a song that Charli XCX wrote specifically for her? Sure you do! That is absolutely<\/em> something you want to see! I’m pretty sure that’s what happens in the trailer for Mother Mary<\/em>, the forthcoming A24-produced pop-star thriller from director David Lowery. (This is the David Lowery who made The Green Knight<\/em> and The Old Man & The Gun<\/em>, not the David Lowery from Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven.)<\/p>\n Charli XCX is deep in her cinematic bag right now. She’s got a number of acting performances<\/a> in new movies, including her own A24 starring vehicle The Moment<\/a><\/em>. Also, Charli’s apparent Brat<\/a><\/em> follow-up is the entire album of tracks that she recorded for Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights<\/em> adaptation. (We’ve posted the John Cale collab “House<\/a>” and the incredibly sick and dramatic “Chains Of Love<\/a>.”) On top of all that, Charli also “wrote and produced songs” for the new David Lowery film Mother Mary<\/em>, and she just tweeted about it. That film was first announced<\/a> in 2023, and its trailer arrived today.<\/p>\n Mother Mary<\/em> appears to follow the unsettling and possibly supernatural relationship between two long-estranged friends \u2014 a pop star, played by Anne Hathaway, and a fashion designer, played by Micaela Coel from I May Destroy You<\/em>. The cast also includes FKA twigs, who’s in one shot of the trailer, and Hunter Schafer from Euphoria<\/em>. The preview is light on story details and heavy on creepy atmosphere, and the scenes of Hathaway in performance are awesome<\/em>. In those bits, we catch glimpses of Hathaway singing what sure sounds like a new Charli XCX song, and I’m going to buy a ticket on the promise of that spectacle alone.<\/p>\n The Mother Mary poster and trailer both mention that the movie features original music by Charli XCX, Jack Antonoff, and FKA twigs. That’s quite a trio! Up until this moment, Charli had semi-public beef with both twigs and one very prominent Antonoff collaborator. People online are already suggesting that this list of names suggests a burial of hatchets, or perhaps a strategic realignment, though it’s probably just that they recorded these songs a few years ago. Check out the trailer below.<\/p>\n