Emma Stone is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons in trailer for ‘Bugonia,’ their latest film with Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons in trailer for ‘Bugonia,’ their latest film with Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone, in a black skirt suit and sunglasses, walks to her Mercedes SUV in “Bugonia.”

By the looks of the first trailer for “Bugonia,” Emma Stone’s latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos will be just as brilliantly bizarre as its predecessors.

“Bugonia,” an English-language remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy “Save the Green Planet!,” follows two conspiracy theorists who believe Stone’s high-powered chief executive character is an alien planning to destroy planet Earth — so they kidnap her.

Emma Stone is kidnapped by Jesse Plemons in trailer for ‘Bugonia,’ their latest film with Yorgos Lanthimos
Emma Stone, in a black skirt suit and sunglasses, walks to her Mercedes SUV in “Bugonia.”
Emma Stone stars in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Bugonia,” their third collaboration in three years. (Atsushi Nishijima / Focus Features)
Los Angeles Times 2024 summer intern Cate Burtner
By Cate Burtner
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June 26, 2025 3:44 PM PT

By the looks of the first trailer for “Bugonia,” Emma Stone’s latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos will be just as brilliantly bizarre as its predecessors.

“Bugonia,” an English-language remake of the South Korean sci-fi comedy “Save the Green Planet!,” follows two conspiracy theorists who believe Stone’s high-powered chief executive character is an alien planning to destroy planet Earth — so they kidnap her.

Stone and Lanthimos have previously worked together on “The Favourite” (2018), “Poor Things” (2023) and “Kinds of Kindness” (2024). “Bugonia” marks their third consecutive film in three years.

The trailer — released Thursday by Focus Features — opens with a voiceover, a metaphor and a shot of a beehive. “The workers gather pollen for the queen,” Jesse Plemons, who worked with Lanthimos and Stone in “Kinds of Kindness,” says as the trailer cuts to Stone’s swaggering CEO.

After a quippy kidnapping montage with Plemons and Aidan Delbis’ characters set to Green Day’s “Basket Case,” Stone is shown lying unconscious in a bed. Jarring chords alternate with action-packed footage of fist fights and police chases, all framed in Lanthimos’ quintessential style.