‘Honey Don’t!’: Margaret Qualley and Ethan Coen to Re-team for Next Project!!

With his solo directorial debut Drive-Away Dolls due in theaters next month, Ethan Coen is lining up his next project – and he’s working with one of Drive-Away Dolls’ stars again. Margaret Qualley will star in Honey Don’t! alongside Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans. Deadline reports that the trio will begin filming the new picture in New Mexico in March. Plot details are being kept under wraps for now, but it is said to be of a piece with the screwball crime comedy of Drive-Away Dolls; Qualley will play a private eye, Evans will play a cult leader, and Plaza will portray a mystery woman of some stripe.

Drive-Away Dolls is the first feature Ethan Coen has directed without his brother Joel, who likewise went solo with 2021’s Tragedy of Macbeth for A24 and Apple. While the two may work together again in the future, Ethan has found another collaborator in the form of his wife, Tricia Cooke; Cooke edited many of the Coens‘ classic films, including Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? She produced and co-wrote Drive-Away Dolls with her husband, and will do so on Honey Don’t! as well. The film will presumably be part of a loosely-connected “lesbian b-movie” trilogy they previously discussed with Collider‘s Steve Weintraub last summer.

Said Cooke, “Over the past 20 years, we’ve been writing this lesbian B movie trilogy. Not really a trilogy, but the idea was to write three queer B movies that I always thought would just kind of sit in the drawer and our kids would look at one day when they were old and get some laughs. And now we’ve made one of them.”

Who are the Stars of ‘Honey Don’t!’?

The daughter of Groundhog Day‘s Andie MacDowell, Qualley had roles in The Nice Guys and The Leftovers before breaking out with a role as one of Charles Manson’s disciples in Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. She currently stars in the Oscar-nominated Poor Things, and can be seen next month in the aforementioned Drive-Away Dolls. Plaza became a comedy sensation as the deadpan April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, and has parlayed that into a successful film and TV career. She recently starred on the second season of HBO‘s The White Lotus, and will soon be seen in My Old Ass, a time-travel comedy that debuted to great acclaim at Sundance. Best known for his own MCU role, that of the living legend of World War II Captain America, Evans has pursued darker roles since departing the franchise with Avengers: Endgame. Last year, he starred in the Apple action film Ghosted and the pharmaceutical crime drama Pain Hustlers for Netflix. He can next be seen alongside Dwayne Johnson in the Amazon holiday action film Red One.

While Honey Don’t! hasn’t started filming yet, viewers will be able to get a taste of Coen and Cooke‘s comedic sensibilities on February 23, when Drive-Away Dolls hits theaters. The film stars Qualley and Geraldine Viswanathan as two women on a road trip to Tallahasse who get waylaid by a number of incompetent Coen-style criminals. Pedro Pascal, Colman Domingo, Beanie Feldstein, and Matt Damon also star.