Is the great Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay coming out with two films in 2025? Sadly, no. Despite a 2021 Variety report that said her film, “Polaris,” with Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, had already wrapped, after the fact, a talent rep from Lux, the agency that represents Ramsay, said that was not the case (and then Variety scrubbed all references to the film from their story).
Still, her film “Die My Love,” with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson did shoot this past summer and thus should hopefully be arriving sometime next year. Venice, maybe in the fall?
Regardless, there’s usually a long gap between Ramsay films; it will have been an eight-year gap between 2017’s “You Were Never Really Here” and her forthcoming movie.
But things are still trucking along nicely for her with new projects. According to a recent Another Magazine piece, Ramsay is already doing scouting work on the film “Stone Mattress,” which is a very good sign. Starring Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh, the film is already rumored to be shooting in late 2024, so this one looks like it will jump the queue in front of “Polaris.” An adaptation of a New Yorker short story by Margaret Atwood (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), the blue-chip revenge thriller is set on a cruise ship in the Arctic. Moore will play a 60-year-old retired physiotherapist and twice a widow who embarks on a luxurious cruise into the magnificent and silently thawing Arctic Northwest Passage, populated by a crowd of privileged influencers and wealthy retirees.
In the Another Mag story, she calls the film a “rich person’s cruise to see the end of the world.” Thankfully, she hasn’t given up on Polaris, which sometimes goes under the name “Dark Slides.” Described as a psychological horror, Ramsay says the film is a bit like “’ Rosemary’s Baby’ in the Arctic,” and Joaquin Phoenix plays an “Ahab-like” figure.
According to Another Mag, “The film takes place at the turn of the 20th century; its dark ecological themes are encoded in that ambitious burning-whale cut that has been living, rent-free in Ramsay’s head for a while now.”
All of that stands to figure. Ramsay has been obsessed with “Moby Dick” for years now and had charted a “sci-fi” adaptation at one point. In fact, most of the Another Mag article is centered around that obsession.
“I’ve always been obsessed with whales – they’re just so beautiful and mysterious. I read Moby Dick when I was 17 or 18 and couldn’t get into it, with all ye olde language. I liked Dostoevsky, but that was an easier read. Then I gave Moby Dick another go years later, and I was like, fucking hell, this is biblical,” she said.
As for next year’s “Die My Love,” she’s described it as a dark comedy.
“It’s about mental health…and the breakdown of a marriage,” she said last year. “But it’s really f—ing funny. At least, I think it’s funny… But I’m Glaswegian, so I’ve a really black sense of humor.”
Fingers crossed, “Stone Mattress” shoots soon, “Polaris”/” Dark Slides” gets back on track, and we’re not waiting several years between modern Lynn Ramsay masterpieces.
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2007. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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