US Edition‘Bugonia’ Took Emma Stone – and Her Algorithm – to some Pretty Weird Places
Emma Stone stars as a pharmaceutical CEO kidnapped by conspiracy theorists in a dark comedy exploring corporate cruelty and societal divides, following a Korean satire adaptation.
- Recently, 'Bugonia' premiered at the Venice Film Festival and opens in select theaters this weekend, starring Emma Stone as Michelle Fuller, a pharma CEO held captive by conspiracist cousins Teddy and Don.
- Screenwriter Will Tracy adapted the English-language version of Save the Green Planet! during the coronavirus lockdowns, with the gender switch of the CEO role made before Yorgos Lanthimos joined three years ago.
- Stone endures physically demanding scenes with close-up focus, performing stripped-down captivity moments with a shaved head and smeared antihistamine cream, while stunt coordinators worked with Plemons and Stone.
- Arriving amid a tough theatrical market for art films, filmmakers hope Yorgos Lanthimos's breakthroughs with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, and Poor Things' $117 million box office provide momentum.
- The film frames conspiracy and corporate power as satirical targets, satirizing conspiracy culture and corporate misdeeds while contrasting a cluttered farmhouse with a sterile mansion; Bugonia’s title references an ancient Greek concept.
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‘Bugonia’ Review: Jesse Plemons Tries to Save the World from Emma Stone in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Blunt Big-Pharma Hostage Thriller
Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2025 Venice Film Festival. Focus Features releases “Bugonia” in select theaters on Friday, October 24 before a wide release October 31. Imagine if Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” were instead about a pair of lone-wolf, conservationist vigilantes trying to save the world instead of two sociopathic twinks wanting to tear it down, and you’ll have some idea of the hyper-contained, rigorou…
‘Bugonia’ took Emma Stone – and her algorithm – to some pretty weird places
By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Emma Stone’s algorithm is playing up again. The two-time Academy Award winner reported in May that she was being fed a load of “crazy sh*t” online since researching her part as a woman swept up by a cult in Ari Aster’s pandemic satire “Eddington,” released this summer. Stone’s latest role in this week’s “Bugonia” – in which she plays a pharmaceutical executive accused of being an alien – has not helped matters. “I don…
'Bugonia' review: Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos' gnarly black comedy is far from their best
There's actor/director pairings so strong that they come to define the core of both's filmographies: Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, and now Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos. Sure, the Greek director was on the rise before collaborating with Stone, having earned international critical acclaim for 2009's Dogtooth, and his first Oscar nomination (for Best Screenplay) for the Colin Far…
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