Nia DaCosta's 'Hedda' starring Tessa Thompson gets October release date 

"I called my team, and I said that I need to make Hedda," the writer/director told Deadline. "I had written it years ago and I said that I really needed to go back to that because this isn’t fulfilling in the way I need it to be."

DaCosta and Thompson previously worked together on Neon's Little Woods, which came out in 2018. In an interview with SAGindie to discuss the project, she explained, "Tessa and I met at the Directors Lab in 2015, actually. She came out to help workshop it with two other actors, including Luke Kirby, who’s also in the film. So we met pretty early on in the process, pretty much at the very beginning of that development period. We just fell in love and fell in love with this project together and a week in I was like, 'Do you want to do this movie?' And she was like, 'Yeah!' [Laughs] So that was awesome. And then, of course, she exploded."

The creative team for Hedda includes music by Hildur Gudnadottir, editing by Jacob Schulsinger, costume designer Lindsay Pugh, production designer Cara Brower, and Sean Bobbitt, BSC, as the director of photography. 

The movie will be released in select theaters on October 22 before making its Prime Video streaming debut on October 29.