It was last summer when Focus Features announced Bugonia , the latest film from director Yorgos Lanthimos. That alone is enough to get anyone excited, as Lanthimos has long established himself as a filmmaker whose work you turn up to, no matter what . But then, the film had this tagline , and instantly, we were hooked: “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.” Yes, please, and thank you.

Written by Will Tracy, based on a 2003 South Korean film called Save the Green Planet, Bugonia stars Emma Stone as the CEO and Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis as the conspiracy nuts. It opens in limited release on October 24 before expanding wide on October 31. And while we’ve seen severa

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