By the looks of the archetypal trailer for “Bugonia,” Emma Stone’s latest collaboration with manager Yorgos Lanthimos volition beryllium conscionable arsenic brilliantly bizarre arsenic its predecessors.
“Bugonia,” an English-language remake of the South Korean sci-fi drama “Save the Green Planet!,” follows 2 conspiracy theorists who judge Stone’s high-powered main enforcement quality is an alien readying to destruct satellite Earth — truthful they kidnap her.
Stone and Lanthimos person antecedently worked unneurotic connected “The Favourite” (2018), “Poor Things” (2023) and “Kinds of Kindness” (2024). “Bugonia” marks their 3rd consecutive movie successful 3 years.
The trailer — released Thursday by Focus Features — opens with a voiceover, a metaphor and a changeable of a beehive. “The workers stitchery pollen for the queen,” Jesse Plemons, who worked with Lanthimos and Stone successful “Kinds of Kindness,” says arsenic the trailer cuts to Stone’s swaggering CEO.
After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters acceptable to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious successful a bed. Jarring chords alternate with action-packed footage of fist fights and constabulary chases, each framed successful Lanthimos’ quintessential style.
“How tin you archer she’s an alien?” Delbis asks. Plemons replies, “Well, the signs are obvious.”
The conspiracy mentation — and the information astir the CEO’s extraterrestrial presumption — stay thing but evident successful this archetypal teaser; fans volition person to hold for the film’s release.
“Bugonia” is acceptable for a constricted tally connected Oct. 24 earlier expanding wide Oct. 31. Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone circular retired the cast.
