Director Yorgos Lanthimos and cast members Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons pose during a photocall for the film “Kinds of Kindness” in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. Photo Credit: Sarah Messonnier

Following the Cannes premiere of his latest film, director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to direct a new project, Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. The film, a sci-fi dark comedy, has been picked up by Focus Features for US distribution, while Universal Pictures will handle the international release.

Bugonia marks a departure from Lanthimos’ recent collaboration with Searchlight Pictures, which had backed his acclaimed films. Favorite And poor thingsas well as upcoming types of kindness, The new film will reunite Lanthimos with Stone and Plemons, who both star in Types of kindness,

Based on the 2003 South Korean sci-fi comedy save the green planet, Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap a high-powered CEO, convinced he is an alien plotting to destroy the Earth. This English-language adaptation is developed by CJ ENM in collaboration with Square Peg hereditary Directors Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen.

Bugonia is produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures, along with Mickey Lee and Jerry Kyungbaum for Lanthimos, Aster, Knudsen, Stone and CJ ENM.

Six-time Academy Award® nominee Yorgos Lanthimos has achieved international acclaim since his breakout film dogtooth Un Certain Regard won the award at Cannes in 2009. His transition to English-language cinema has been marked by several successful films, including Lobster, killing a sacred deerAnd FavoriteWhich won Olivia Colman the Best Actress Oscar.

Lanthimos’s recent film poor things Dominating the 2023 Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Lion, and garnering 11 Academy Award® nominations, Stone won her second Best Actress award.

types of kindnessHis latest work, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and is set to be released on June 21, 2024.