Colin Farrell And Rachel Weisz Join 'The Lobster' By 'Dogtooth' Director Yorgos Lanthimos

Briefly: Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who directed Alps and Dogtooth, is making his first English-language feature. The Lobster is "an unconventional love story" that has been coming together for a while now. What makes it unconventional? The fact that it is set in a dystopian future isn't all that odd in the days of rampant YA adaptations, and the fact that this particular future makes it "a matter of life or death" to find a life partner isn't even the unusual bit. No, there's something in the script about people being transformed into animals if they don't fit in. Yeah, that's the unusual part.

Most of the cast has been set since last fall, but Jason Clarke seems to have dropped out, and Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz are now on board. They join the previously cast Ben Whishaw, Lea Seydoux, Olivia Colman, Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia. Lanthimos wrote with frequent collaborator Efthimis Filippou, and we can't wait to see what weirdness they've cooked up. [THR]