Directed by the BAFTA Award recipient Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia is a remake of Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 Korean movie Save the Inexperienced Planet!. The darkish comedy movie stars Emma Stone as Michelle Fuller, the CEO of a significant pharmaceutical firm, and Jesse Plemons as Teddy Gatz, a beekeeper and conspiracy theorist.
The story revolves round Teddy and his neurotic cousin Don (performed by Aidan Delbis), who imagine that Michelle is a high-ranking alien, a so-called “Andromedan,” who has taken over Earth with the intention of destroying it. The 2 males kidnap Michelle and maintain her captive of their rural basement, the place they topic her to weird interrogation and torture, hoping to drive her to contact her “mothership” and negotiate the aliens’ withdrawal.
Because the determined CEO tries to persuade her captors she is human, it is revealed Teddy’s anger is fueled by a mix of his worry for humanity (together with the collapse of bee colonies) and a quest for revenge, as Michelle’s firm is liable for a drug trial that left his mom (Alicia Silverstone) comatose.
Bugonia was primarily filmed in areas throughout the UK and the US, together with areas in Excessive Wycombe and Oxshott, England, and the town of Atlanta, Georgia. Some scenes had been additionally filmed in Sarakiniko Seashore in Greek island of Milos.
Bugonia filming areas and manufacturing particulars
Bugonia manufacturing was primarily centered throughout areas in the UK, the US, and Greece. Within the UK, filming was held within the English countryside and its periphery with key areas such because the Excessive Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, and the rich village of Oxshott, Surrey, the place a personal property was used as the house of Emma Stone’s CEO character, Michelle.
The company setting, which was the fictional Auxolith headquarters, was shot at Botanica Ditton Park close to Slough, a contemporary workplace advanced that establishes the character’s chilly, luxurious world. The manufacturing was additionally held within the American metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia, the place filming was accomplished by October 2024.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos, a Greek filmmaker, had supposed to shoot the movie’s ending on the Acropolis of Athens. Nevertheless, the Central Archaeological Council of Greece rejected his request. Therefore, the manufacturing crew needed to search another, main them to the Greek island of Milos, the place the filming was held at Sarakiniko Seashore.
Bugonia is Lanthimos’s most expensive film up to now, with an estimated funds of between $45 million and $55 million. The movie’s cinematography was helmed by Robbie Ryan, who selected to shoot roughly 95% of the film on high-resolution VistaVision (8-perf 35mm movie), a way he additionally employed on filming Poor Issues. This format allowed for an immersive, widescreen canvas with a traditional movie texture.
Following a manufacturing interval that spanned from July 2024 to Might 2025, Bugonia premiered at main movie festivals and was launched in the US with restricted screenings on October 24, 2025.
Bugonia is about for a large launch on October 31, 2025 within the U.S. and Eire. Keep tuned for extra updates.
Edited by Suchita Patnaha
