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Bugonia Drops New Trailer as Tickets Go on Sale for October Release

Lanthimos’s remake of the South Korean cult film builds on festival buzz with a mystery that questions what people choose to believe.

Overview

  • Focus Features unveiled a new trailer and opened ticket sales ahead of the film’s late-October rollout.
  • The film opens in select theaters on Oct. 24 before expanding nationwide on Oct. 31.
  • Yorgos Lanthimos directs from Will Tracy’s screenplay, adapting the 2003 South Korean cult favorite Save the Green Planet!.
  • Emma Stone leads as a pharmaceutical CEO, with Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis as her kidnappers, alongside Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.
  • The trailer spotlights the central “is she an alien?” question, building on mostly positive Venice reactions to the film’s timely satire.