Coen’s follow-up to 2025’s Drive-Away Dolls – Honey, Don’t – is set to arrive in early 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 12 months later, the film is slated to arrive (in the US at least) with World Of Reel stating that Honey, Don’t is slated for a May 2025 release.
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.
