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Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos is direct­ing Kirsten Dun­st in a sur­re­al sound­ing new TV show

10 Jan 2017

Words by Lena Hanafy

A woman with curly blonde hair and a pale pink coat stands in a retro-style salon, doing the hair of a young woman with dark hair.
A woman with curly blonde hair and a pale pink coat stands in a retro-style salon, doing the hair of a young woman with dark hair.
The Far­go actress will star in On Becom­ing a God in Cen­tral Florida.

The stu­dio behind The Walk­ing Dead and Humans has announced a bold­ly titled new series, On Becom­ing a God in Cen­tral Flori­da. Even more than that intrigu­ing name is the news that the show will pair direc­tor Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos with lead actress Kirsten Dunst.

The plot will report­ed­ly cen­tre on one woman’s pur­suit of the Amer­i­can Dream dur­ing the ear­ly ​’90s. Set in Orlan­do, Dunst’s char­ac­ter, Krys­tan Gill, is a wid­owed water park employ­ee work­ing min­i­mum wage who pro­ceeds to scheme and con her way up to the top of Founders Amer­i­can Mer­chan­dise – the very same cultish pyra­mid scheme which reduced her to ruin in the first place.

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Lan­thi­mos work is known for its sur­re­al tone, with Dog­tooth, Alps and, most recent­ly, The Lob­ster, each more hilar­i­ous­ly dis­turb­ing than the last. For her part, Dun­st has enjoyed some­thing of a mini-resur­gence on the small screen of late, win­ning acclaim for her Gold­en Globe and Emmy nom­i­nat­ed turn as Peg­gy Blumquist in Fargo.

On Becom­ing a God… sounds even more up our street, and with Lan­thi­mos on board we’re ful­ly expect­ing it to reach the same eccen­tric heights of that suc­cess­ful Coen broth­ers spin-off.

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