Netflix has set a November 16, 2022 premiere date for The Wonder, a psychological thriller starring Florence Pugh. The film, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride, also just released a new poster and photos.
In addition to Florence Pugh, the cast includes Tom Burke, Niamh Algar, Elaine Cassidy, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Toby Jones, and Ciarán Hinds. Dermot Crowley, Brían F. O’Byrne, and David Wilmot also star.
Sebastián Lelio and Alice Birch adapted Emma Donoghue’s 2018 novel, with Lelio also directing. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell, Ed Guiney, and Andrew Lowe produced.
The Plot: The Irish Midlands, 1862 – a young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year-old Anna O’Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months. Is the village harboring a saint ‘surviving on manna from heaven’ or are there more ominous motives at work?
