Focus Features Releases First Look, Teaser, Date for Yorgos Lanthimos’s ‘Bugonia,’ Starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
Focus Features has revealed the first look and teaser for Bugonia, the new film from Yorgos Lanthimos, following up last year’s Kinds of Kindness and Poor Things the year prior, which won four Oscars, including Best Actress for Emma Stone.
Stone returns in Bugonia as a high-powered CEO of a major company who is kidnapped by two conspiracy obsessed young men who are convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The screenplay is by Will Tracy and based on the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan.
Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone also star.
Frequent artisan collaborators on the film include: 2-time Academy Award nominee and longtime editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (who has edited all of Lanthimos’ films), 2-time Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Robbie Ryan (4th time collaborating together in a partnership that includes Poor Things and The Favourite), Academy Award-winning production designer James Price (Poor Things), and Academy Award-nominated composer Jerskin Fendrix (Poor Things).
Other notable artisans include: Academy Award-winning sound mixer Johnnie Burn (The Zone of Interest), costume designer Jennifer Johnson (I, Tonya), and casting director Jennifer Venditti (Uncut Gems).
The film is producced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.
Focus Features will release Bugonia with a special limited engagement on October 24 ahead of a wide expansion on October 31.
Here is the first teaser.
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