Emma Stone Gets Kidnapped (And Her Head Shaved) By Jesse Plemons In New Bugonia Trailer

Universal Pictures UK and Focus Features have released a brand new trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, which you can watch below!

Starring previous collaborators Emma Stone (The Favourite, Kinds of Kindness) and Jesse Plemons (Kinds of Kindness, Civil War), the film is an English-language remake of 2003’s Save the Green Planet! Focus Features will distribute it in the US.

The film follows two young men who kidnap a major company CEO, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. Stone, who won an Academy Award for her performance in Lanthimos’ Poor Things, will play the CEO.

Plemons is also a returning collaborator, having worked with both Lanthimos and Stone in 2024’s Kinds of Kindness.

Alicia Silverstone (Clueless), Stavros Halkias, and Aidan Delbis are also amongst the cast. Lanthimos himself will head the project, whilst also obtaining a producer credit alongside Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.

Save the Green Planet!, the original film of the same story, was directed by Jang Joon-hwan, is available to stream on Kanopy.

Bugonia will be released in UK cinemas on October 31st. 

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