Ahead of the film's world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival, A24 has shared the first official poster for Saint Maud director Rose Glass’s new romantic revenge thriller, Love Lies Bleeding, with the first trailer set to debut online at some point tomorrow.
The provocative one-sheet features The Mandalorian's Katy O’Brian as a gun-wielding and scantily clad Jackie, "an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream." There, she encounters Kristen Stewart's (Underwater, Charlie's Angels) character, Lou, who is described as a "reclusive gym manager."
The two embark on a relationship, but their “romance fuelled by ego, desire and the American Dream” soon leads to bloodshed.
Plot details are a little sketchy beyond this, but O'Brian did hint that the movie may be hiding a horror twist during a recent interview with Collider.
"In the original script, there were a lot of Saint Maud kind of moments. Like body horror, that kind of thing. We kind of had to consolidate it I guess a little bit more. I’m really excited to see what the final edit looks like, but I think it’s more focused on the love story and more focused on the thriller aspect. So it’s a love thriller, kind of Western. It’s shot like a Western. It’s so unique, so interesting, and only Rose’s brain could have come up with it. She’s got this unparalleled imagination.
[She] has, I think, a really, really unique sense of storytelling. [She] comes up with stories that just aren’t told, or if they are, are told in a really, really unique way. It was really great to work with her and getting to do a film like that where it’s not all about action, it’s not all about kicking butt, or whatever. It’s like a really heart wrenching story and I actually felt like I got to connect to a character more than I ever have before. One second you’re crying, you’re laughing. I think it’s just a really full fledged beautiful story and I’m super, super excited for people to see it."
“Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.”