Focus Features has taken worldwide rights to Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest project Bugonia, the remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, which sees the Greek director reunite yet again with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

The upcoming film is a remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save The Green Planet, which was directed by Jang Joon-hwan and won a host of awards after playing numerous festivals in 2003. The English-language version was developed by CJ ENM with Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen at Square Peg. The production has been financed by Fremantle and CJ ENM.

The story centres on two conspiracy-obsessed young men, who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The cast is led by Plemons and Stone, who are in Cannes alongside Lanthimos, where Kinds Of Kindness received its world premiere in Competition.

While the director may be reuniting with two key collaborators, Lanthimos is leaving Searchlight Pictures for this project, the studio that has backed lots of his films including Oscar winners, Poor Things and The Favourite, not to mention the upcoming Kinds of Kindness.

Kinds Of Kindness releases on 28th June and will see Lanthimos reuniting with Stone for a fifth time. Plemons also features in the film which is said to be an anthology film of sorts although in typical Lanthimos fashion we’re expecting his use of this structure to be suffused with that trademark weirdness.

Source: Press Release