Overview

• Focus Features unveiled a full trailer as the film bowed in Venice, where the screening drew about 6 minutes, 50 seconds of applause inside the Sala Grande.
• Emma Stone plays a powerful CEO targeted by two conspiracy-obsessed captors in Lanthimos’ adaptation of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 Save the Green Planet!.
• Early notices highlight standout turns from Stone and Jesse Plemons, with several outlets praising the film’s provocative dark comedy even as a few note pacing quibbles.
• Lanthimos framed the film as a mirror of present realities, cautioning that humanity faces a reckoning tied to technology, AI, wars and climate change.
• Written by Will Tracy and produced by Element Pictures, CJ ENM, Fruit Tree and Square Peg, Bugonia opens in a limited U.S. run on Oct. 24 before expanding wide on Oct. 31.