Focus Features has released the first teaser for Bugonia, the latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, and it places star Emma Stone at the center of an alien conspiracy. Bugonia will receive a special limited engagement on October 24, ahead of a wide expansion theatrically on October 31, 2025. Bugonia was initially slated for November 7 release. The weeklong cinematic event will feature […]
Focus Features has released the first teaser for Bugonia, the latest film from Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos, and it places star Emma Stone at the center of an alien conspiracy.
Bugonia will receive a special limited engagement on October 24, ahead of a wide expansion theatrically on October 31, 2025. Bugonia was initially slated for November 7 release.
The weeklong cinematic event will feature screenings of the film, which was shot in VistaVision, at select locations in New York and Los Angeles.
The film follows “two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth.”
Bugonia is an English-language remake of 2003’s Korean genre-bender Save the Green Planet!, an off-beat, black comedy-sci-fi feature written and directed by Jang Joon-Hwan. The teaser below introduces Stone as the powerful CEO targeted by a pair who suspect her of being an alien.
Jesse Plemons (Civil War, Antlers), Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias (Let’s Start a Cult), and Alicia Silverstone (The Lodge) also star in Bugonia. Lanthimos directs from a screenplay by Will Tracy (The Menu).
Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) produces along with Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Miky Lee, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko, Lanthimos, Stone, and Lars Knudsen.
Producers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen previously said in a statement, “Swinging with youthful abandon between white-knuckle suspense, absurd slapstick, grim horror and a deeply felt (and earned) sense of tragedy, is one of the most remarkable films to come out of South Korea – among this recent wave or wave, for that matter. When we heard that director Jang was passionate about revisiting this iconic work, bringing it to the US and updating it to reflect the mess of the world today (which feels even more ripe for this kind of apocalyptic skewering than when the film was first released), we leapt at the chance to be a part of it. We’re honored to be partnering with CJ and with the brilliant director Jang.”
