World premiering today at the Venice International Film Festival is Bugonia, the fourth feature collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone. And to mark the occasion, Focus Features has released the full trailer to the odd little film, a remake of the South Korean comedy Save the Green Planet!, about a couple of guys who kidnap a high-powered CEO, believing her to be an alien determined to destroy Earth.
Stone plays the corporate CEO and potential alien. Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone co-star. Lanthimos directs from a script written by Will Tracy, co-writer on The Menu.
This is Lanthimos and Stone’s fourth movie together following The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness. They also collaborated on a short film, Bleat, in 2022. The partnership just works, even on a movie that underwhelms as Kinds of Kindness does. They have a combined twenty Academy Award nominations together and there’s no reason to think they won’t get more.
SYNOPSIS: Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Bugonia opens in theaters on October 24th for a limited engagement, before going wide on October 31st.
