Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel to Star in Pop Music Melodrama “Mother Mary”

Anne Hathaway is displaying off her pipes once more. Deadline studies that the Oscar winner will play a fictional musician in “Mother Mary,” an “epic pop melodrama” that can see her becoming a member of forces with the history-making auteur behind “I May Destroy You,” Michaela Coel, who will play an “iconic fashion designer” in the pic.

A24 is behind the movie, which is being written and directed by David Lowery (“The Green Knight”).

Hathaway took house an Oscar for her supporting function in “Les Misérables” and obtained a nom for “Rachel Getting Married.” She debuted her newest movie, “Eileen,” an adaptation of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel of the identical title, at Sundance in January.

Coel grew to become the primary Black lady to win an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology sequence for “I May Destroy You,” which she created, starred in, wrote, and directed. The sequence about author coping with the aftermath of being sexually assaulted additionally netted an Emmy for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series. Coel was final seen in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.”