News Bugonia Bugonia Trailer: Emma Stone Is Totally Not an Alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film But what do the bees have to do with anything??!? By Molly Templeton | Published on August 28, 2025 Screenshot: Focus Features Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Focus Features Every new Yorgos Lanthimos movie is cause for celebration. We have celebrated Dogtooth, and The Favourite, and Poor Things, and now we will celebrate his next film, Bugonia, which was recently described by star Emma Stone as “really fascinating and moving, funny and fucked up, and alive.” This is a) a pretty perfect way to describe the director’s work in general and b) a phrase I personally think sounds like a rousing endorsement. Bugonia was initially described as a remake of the Korean film Save the Green Planet!, but recent reports say the movie—which has a screenplay by Succession writer Will Tracy, and was originally developed by Ari Aster—is instead “inspired” by Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 film. The offered synopsis says only, “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.” You can see, maybe, where they might get this idea; plenty of CEOs do give off a strong sense of being unconcerned with the fate of humanity. Though the world seen in the trailer seems relatively normal, the film apparently presents something of a dystopia. However, Lanthimos noted in a recent press conference that the dystopian elements aren’t really a stretch. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lanthimos said: “Again, unfortunately, not much of the dystopia in this film is very fictional. A lot of it is very reflective of the real world,” he said, adding that when one hears the word dystopia, people often think of an image of the future and whatever event has happened to civilization. “If anything, this film says this is happening now. Actually, it became more relevant as time went by. Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon. People need to choose the right path, otherwise, I don’t know how much time [left] with everything that’s happening in the world, with technology, AI, with wars, climate change, the denial of all these things and how desensitized we’ve become to all of these things. [The movie] is more of a reflection of our times and hopefully it will trigger people to think about what’s happening today, all around the world.” Bugonia also stars Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis as Stone’s kidnappers. It’s in theaters October 24th.[end-mark] The post <i>Bugonia</i> Trailer: Emma Stone Is Totally Not an Alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ New Film appeared first on Reactor.