Cyrano is a romantic musical drama based on Erica Schmidt's 2018 stage musical, itself based upon the 1897 Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac. In Joe Wright’s retelling, Peter Dinklage stars as the romantic soldier-poet who cannot admit his love to his beautiful childhood friend Roxane (Haley Bennett) because he believes she could never find him attractive. Resigning himself to failure, Cyrano helps the handsome but inarticulate Christian woo Roxane by writing his love letters for him. She falls for their author completely – but whom, in fact, does she love?