They say that where there's a will there's a way, but 2026 is about to bring with it a new truism: where there's a film there's a Hathaway. Yes, next year is set to be a biggie for the Oscar winner, with the long-awaited The Devil Wears Prada 2, Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey, David Robert Mitchell sci-fi thriller Flowervale Street, and crime drama Verity all on the horizon. First up however is Mother Mary, a psychosexual A24 thriller from A Ghost Story's David Lowery in which Hathaway plays a pop star in crisis who turns to an old friend (Michaela Coel) for help when preparing for her comeback concert. Check out the tense first trailer below;
Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff on the soundtrack? Check! Anne Hathaway channelling her inner Lady Gaga/Madonna? Check! Michaela Coel and Hunter Schafer giving decidedly chilly vibes as Mother Mary's fashion designer-assistant duo, conducting séances and unearthing deep-rooted trauma? Check, check, and treble-check! Yeah, we're thinking Lowery and his cast's Herculean efforts to bring Mother Mary to us are looking pretty well placed to have paid off on present evidence. From the darkly charged chemistry between Hathaway's seriously stressed singer and Coel's casually withering dressmaker to the glimpses of Mother Mary voguing on stage and ominous pieces of religious symbolism peppered throughout, there's plenty of intrigue here and a welcome lack of solid plot clues to go on.
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The official synopsis for Lowery's film, which also stars Jessica Brown Findlay, Sian Clifford, and FKA Twigs, reads as follows: "Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance."
In recent months, writer-director Lowery has described making Mother Mary as akin to being his own Apocalypse Now, while star Hathaway confided to Vogue back in July that playing the titular singer here has been the most challenging role of her life. We'll find out whether their toils have paid off — and whether our year of Hathaway starts pitch perfectly — when Mother Mary hits cinemas stateside (and hopefully here in the UK too) next Spring.