Overview

• World premiering Thursday in Venice, the film returns Lanthimos to the competition lineup two years after Poor Things won the Golden Lion.
• Emma Stone told reporters she "believes in aliens," citing Carl Sagan, and called the project funny, disturbing and alive.
• Yorgos Lanthimos said the story is not a dystopia but a mirror of the present, warning of a coming reckoning tied to technology, AI, wars and climate change.
• Focus Features will open the movie Oct. 24 in a limited run before a wide North American release on Oct. 31.
• Based on Jang Joon-hwan’s Save the Green Planet!, the film follows two conspiracists who kidnap a powerful CEO they think is an alien, with a cast including Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone; Stone shaved her head for the role, and an official poster was unveiled Wednesday with a full trailer teased as imminent.