The Surprise trailer finds Florence Pugh investigating a miracle

Florence Pugh has been particularly prolific these previous few years. Scorching off the controversial launch of Don’t Fear, Darling, the actress already has one other undertaking set for launch subsequent month. Netflix has launched the primary trailer for The Surprise, a interval drama directed by Sebastián Lelio that finds Florence Pugh starring as a nurse investigating a younger lady who claims to not have eaten something for 4 months.

The Surprise is predicated on the novel by Emma Donoghue, who additionally penned the script alongside Alice Birch and Sebastián Lelio. Set in 1862 simply after the Nice Famine, The Surprise follows Nurse Lib Wright (Pugh) as she’s known as to a religious neighborhood within the Irish Midlands to look at 11-year-old Anna, who claims to have survived on nothing however “manna from heaven” for the previous 4 months. The trailer for The Surprise appears to be like stunning, with a slow-burn, non secular thriller that captured my consideration instantly. Along with Florence Pugh, The Surprise additionally stars Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Josie Walker, Elaine Cassidy, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and Ciarán Hinds.

The official synopsis for The Surprise:

Set in 1862, 13 years after the Nice Famine, an English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Pugh) is known as to the Irish Midlands by a religious neighborhood to conduct a 15-day examination over one in every of their very own. Anna O’Donnell (Cassidy) is an 11-year-old lady who claims to not have eaten for 4 months, surviving miraculously on ‘manna from heaven.’ As Anna’s well being quickly deteriorates, Lib is set to unearth the reality, difficult the religion of a neighborhood that would favor to remain believing.

Florence Pugh has a number of extra initiatives simply over the horizon, together with Puss in Boots: The Final Want on December twenty first; Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on July 21, 2023; and Dune: Half Two on November 17, 2023. Pugh can also be anticipated to reprise her function of Yelena Belova for Marvel’s Thunderbolts film. The Surprise debuted on the Telluride Movie Competition final month and might be launched in choose theaters on November 2nd earlier than streaming on Netflix on November sixteenth.