Filmmaker Nia DaCosta doesn't want to be limited by genre. Her movie credits include an indie film ( Little Woods ), a horror blockbuster ( Candyman ) and a foray into the superhero universe ( The Marvels ) .

"I have this feeling of having to prove myself ... and part of that was knowing I need to not get typecast," DaCosta says. "I need to also pursue these other genres that I love, like horror, like comic book movies."

DaCosta's latest film, Hedda , is something more personal, a project she wrote years ago and couldn't shake. In it, she reimagines Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman and transporting the action to a 1950s English manor.

The film tells a twisted story of jealousy and control as it fo

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