Overview
- Writer-director Julia Jackman’s second feature adapts Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel into a fantasy romance set in an imagined medieval world.
- The story follows a maid named Hero who protects the bride Cherry from a seductive suitor by telling nightly tales after Cherry’s husband makes a secret wager.
- Emma Corrin stars as Hero with Maika Monroe as Cherry and Nicholas Galitzine as Manfred, alongside Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, and Felicity Jones.
- The film premiered at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival to strong praise for its pop-forward style and feminist reframing of classic storytelling.
- IFC Films unveiled the official trailer, and the movie is slated for U.S. theaters on December 5 as an Independent Film Company release.