Writer-director Ethan Coen’s follow-up to 2024’s Drive-Away Dolls – Honey, Don’t – is set to arrive in late summer of this year, it’s been confirmed.
Following the release of Drive-Away Dolls to something of a mixed reception last year, Ethan Coen has once again partnered with Tricia Cooke to collaborate on the next entry in their planned lesbian B-movie trilogy: Honey, Don’t.
The project entered production last March and boasts an enviable leading trio of Margaret Qualley, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans. Shooting wrapped up in May and over a year later, the film is slated to arrive (in the US at least) with World Of Reel originally stating that Honey, Don’t is slated for a May 2025 release.
That plan has changed now the movie is going to the Cannes Film Festival, though. Instead, it’s set for a US release of 22nd August, and the UK release is likely to be around the same time.
The thought of Aubrey Plaza working with Ethan Coen is a happy one, but perhaps the real draw here is seeing Chris Evans in a role that hopefully reignites a career which, post-Captain America, has been impacted by middling projects such as Ghosted and Red One. Evans’ filmography would definitely benefit from working with a few auteur filmmakers and Coen certainly qualifies in that regard.
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Focus Features is handling distribution in the US, and the film’s synopsis certainly makes it sound entertaining: Qualley ‘plays a private investigator looking into a Bakersfield, California based cult, led by a charismatic founder (Evans).’
We don’t yet have a UK premiere date, but we’re hoping that the film closely follows the US release: in the case of Drive Away Dolls we had to wait a couple of weeks longer than our pals in the US.
Of course, the accompanying narrative to this story concerns the highly-anticipated reuniting of Ethan with his brother Joel, for their first film as The Coen Brothers since 2018’s The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. With a recent report stating that Joel was making another solo film in 2025, not to mention Ethan having one more follow-up to Drive Away Dolls and Honey, Don’t in the pipeline, it could yet be a while before their planned horror film comes together.
We’ll let you know more as we hear it.
