Bugonia Gets Earlier Release Date for Yorgos Lanthimos Movie With Emma Stone

A release date for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia movie has been set.

Bugonia is a new Focus Features movie that is directed by Poor Things’ Lanthimos. An English-language remake of 2003’s Save the Green Planet!, the movie stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

When is the release date for Bugonia?

Focus Features has announced that Bugonia will begin playing in select theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on October 24, 2025. It will then expand nationwide on October 31, 2025. Prior to the recent announcement, the movie was scheduled to come out on November 7, 2025.

“Bugonia sees two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Planet Earth,” the synopsis for the film reads.

In addition to Stone and Plemons, Bugonia stars Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. The screenplay comes from Will Tracy, while Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe serve as producers for Element Pictures. Other producers include Lanthimos for Pith, Stone for Fruit Tree, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen for Square Peg, and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko for CJ ENM.

Lanthimos has worked with Stone on 2018’s The Favourite, 2023’s Poor Things (which earned Stone the Academy Award for Best Actress), and 2024’s Kinds of Kindness, the latter of which also starred Plemmons. Prior to that, Lanthimos co-directed 2001’s My Best Friend with Lakis Lazopoulos before he went on to helm 2005’s Kinetta, 2009’s Dogtooth, 2011’s Alps, 2015’s The Lobster, and 2017’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Save the Green Planet!, meanwhile, is currently available to stream on Kanopy. Directed by Jang Joon-hwan, the film stars Shin Ha-kyung as Lee Byeong-gu, Baek Yoon-sik as Kang Man-shik, Hwang Jeong-min as Su-ni, Lee Jae-yong as Detective Choo, and Lee Ju-hyeon as Detective Kim.

Source: Focus Features

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