Madness, conspiracy, and truth. 

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with a wild, darkly funny remake: Bugonia. Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Alicia Silverstone, and Stavros Halkias, it’s a sci-fi black comedy satirising our obsession with conspiracy, paranoia, and what we believe about power.

Stone plays Michelle Fuller, a ruthless CEO of a major company. Teddy (Plemons), a beekeeper haunted by his own grief, becomes convinced she isn’t just a business leader but an alien hell-bent on destroying Earth. With his cousin Don (Delbis), Teddy storms into her life, kidnapping her, shaving her head (to block “cosmic interference”), and putting Michelle in a bunker, all to uncover the truth he thinks saves humanity. But of course, nothing stays simple.

Bugonia is adapted from the 2003 South Korean cult sci-fi classic, Save the Green Planet!, with Will Tracy (known for Succession, The Menu) writing the new screenplay, and Emma Stone and Ari Aster among its producers. 

With Lanthimos’ signature off-kilter style, Bugonia leans into absurdity and tension in equal parts: the grotesque, the conspiratorial, and the strangely human. Michelle’s captivity is both horrifying and darkly funny, Teddy’s delusions feel dangerous yet pitiful, and through it all, Bugonia asks: how much madness is born from grief, and how much from the world pushing us too far?

Did you know?

This is Emma Stone’s fourth film with Yorgos Lanthimos, following The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness.

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