Emma Stone Is A CEO Abducted By Conspiracy Theorists

Emma Stone and director Yorgos Lanthimos have proven themselves to be a cinematic powerhouse pairing. After first working together on 2018’s wonderfully weird The Favourite, they reunited for the multiple award-winning Poor Things, and again for last year’s bleakly brilliant triptych Kinds Of Kindness. Now there’s a fourth collaboration on the way, as they team up again for Bugonia, an English-language reimagining of Korean cult classic Save The Green Planet. After dropping a teaser in June, we now have a full trailer to sink our teeth into – and it has all the signs of a classically bizarre (complimentary) Lanthimos joint. Have a watch below.

The trailer starts with a look at Stone as high-powered CEO Michelle – she’s on the cover of magazines, she’s marching around an office in Louboutins, and she’s also struggling to remember her lines during a monologue about diversity and empowerment. Cut to factory worker Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who seems unhappy with his lot in life. Convinced Michelle is some kind of alien intent on destroying Earth, he and a fellow conspiracy theorist abduct her, welcoming her to the ‘Headquarters of Human Resistance’, and shaving her head so as to prevent her communicating with her mother ship.

Cue a version of Chappell Roan banger ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ with menacing undertones, and glimpses at the film that hint at violence, surreal comedy and a driving force of environmental concern – Teddy accuses Michelle of “killing the planet”, plus, somehow, bees are involved? It’s a strange cocktail of the type we’ve come to expect from the Greek filmmaker, and this intriguing setup combined with the star power of Stone and Plemons means we’re surely in for another wild ride. Strap in – Bugonia arrives in cinemas on 31 October.