‘Bugonia’ Trailer: Emma Stone as a CEO Suspected of Being an Alien

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are back with another oddball entry in their ongoing creative partnership. Bugonia, the duo’s latest feature, has unveiled its second trailer, promising a heady cocktail of absurd comedy, paranoia, and corporate satire.

Adapted from the South Korean cult classic Save the Green Planet!, the film centers on two conspiracy theorists who decide their high-powered boss is, quite literally, not human. Their solution is simple and deranged: abduct her, interrogate her, and expose the truth. Naturally, things don’t go smoothly.

Emma Stone takes the role of the targeted CEO, delivering a performance that walks the line between icy authority and unnerving calm. Even while bound to a chair in a grimy basement, she radiates control, which only adds to her captors’ paranoia. Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis play the unhinged abductors, bouncing between misplaced confidence and barely contained desperation. At one point in the trailer, Stone’s character cuts through the madness with a chilling line: “You’re right. I’m not from here.”

The supporting cast adds more layers to the madness. Willem Dafoe scribbles indecipherable diagrams, Alicia Silverstone appears in a fleeting but memorable cameo, and Stavros Halkias joins the eccentric ensemble. Each piece of the puzzle heightens the tension, while Lanthimos maintains his signature off-kilter rhythm, a mix of deadpan delivery, awkward silences, and sudden bursts of unease.

Visually, the trailer signals a return to the filmmaker’s trademark dissonance. Jarring tonal shifts sit alongside meticulously staged compositions, and the humor arrives as often from discomfort as from dialogue. Lanthimos leans into the absurdity of men in beekeeper suits and basement conspiracies while never letting the underlying menace drift too far from view.

Produced by Focus Features, Bugonia represents the fifth collaboration between Stone and Lanthimos, further cementing one of the most intriguing director-actor partnerships in contemporary cinema. With its mix of satire, horror, and bleak comedy, the film looks set to divide and delight audiences in equal measure when it lands later this year on October 24, 2025.

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