Los Angeles, May 19 – Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has set his next project Bugonia with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the stars of his forthcoming film Kinds of Kindness which premiered recently at the Cannes Film Festival.
Based on the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet, Bugonia was developed for English adaptation by acclaimed director Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen for their production banner Square Peg.
Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
The script was penned by Will Tracy, known for Succession and The Menu.
Focus Features will distribute the project in the US domestic market, with Universal Pictures premiering it in global territories, except South Korea where Parasite production label CJ ENM will release it.
Aster and Knudson will produce Bugonia with frequent Lanthimos collaborators Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe (Element Pictures), alongside Lanthimos, Stone and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (CJ ENM).
Stone recently won her second best actress Oscar for Poor Things.
