Lanthimos' Bugonia Stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia is a gender‑swapped remake of the 2003 Korean cult film Save the Green Planet!, starring Jesse Plemons as conspiracy theorist Teddy, Emma Stone as pharmaceutical CEO Michelle, and newcomer Aidan Delbis as Teddy’s cousin Don. Adapted by Will Tracy, the dark comedy follows Teddy and Don as they abduct Michelle because they believe she is an alien responsible for corporate and ecological harms, and depicts the conspirators chemically castrating themselves. The gender swap reframes sexual dynamics and misogyny and intensifies the power struggle between abductor and abductee while the film satirizes corporate perks, online radicalization and beekeeping motifs. Critics have called Bugonia Lanthimos’s most accessible film yet but note it remains tonally jumbled—alternately brutal, darkly funny and violently jarring—with standout, unnerving performances from Plemons and Stone. Rated R, Bugonia opens in select theaters and nationwide Oct. 31 and is the fourth collaboration between Lanthimos and Stone.