Two-time Oscar winner Emma Stone is reuniting with her Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness director Yorgos Lanthimos for Bugonia. Kinds of Kindness‘ Jesse Plemons is also on board Bugonia, which has landed at Focus Features.
“Yorgos Lanthimos is a cinematic visionary with a singular style that has captivated audiences worldwide. We could not be more excited to partner with him, Emma and the incredible teams at Element, Square Peg, and CJ ENM to reimagine this twisted and darkly funny story,” stated Peter Kujawski, Chairman of Focus Features.
The film is based on the South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet. Will Tracy wrote the English language version’s screenplay, and Fremantle and CJ ENM are financing the production.
Focus Features offers this description of five-time Oscar nominee Lanthimos’ new film: “Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.”
Producers include Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe (Element Pictures), Yorgos Lanthimos, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen (Square Peg), Emma Stone (Fruit Tree), and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko (CJ ENM).
“We are thrilled that Fremantle is coming on board for Yorgos’s latest project and are proud to support the wonderful team at Element,” said Christian Vesper, CEO Global Drama, Fremantle. “Yorgos’s films are consistently innovative and captivating, and we are delighted to join him and all the wonderful partners on Bugonia.”
“We are so looking forward to working with the brilliant team at Focus Features, and are delighted to be re-uniting with Yorgos, Emma and Jesse as well as many of the great crew we have collaborated with on recent films,” stated producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe.
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