10 Upcoming Movies With INSANE Premises
9. By Design
The latest project from indie filmmaker Amanda Kramer (Ladyworld, Please Baby Please) touts one of the most hilariously inspired premises of any movie due out next year.
By Design follows a woman, Camille (Juliette Lewis), who falls in love with a chair she can't afford, and inexplicably swaps bodies with said chair, because why the hell not? And because that's apparently not insane enough, here's the delicious punchline - everyone ends up liking Camille better as a chair.
For anyone who claims that originality in Hollywood is dead, here's your answer. That's about as attention-grabbing as movie loglines get, with the rest of the movie unfolding as an existential black comedy where Camille ponders whether life is better as a human or a chair.
While it's of course not merely enough to come up with a fiercely unique idea, it's easy to have faith here with a supporting cast that includes Mamoudou Athie, Melanie Griffith, Samantha Mathis, Robin Tunney, and Udo Kier.