BUGONIA – Official Teaser Trailer [HD] – Only in Theaters October

Focus Features has dropped the first official teaser for Bugonia, the latest genre experiment from director Yorgos Lanthimos, following his Oscar-winning Poor Things. This time, the acclaimed auteur adapts the cult 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, reimagining it through his surreal, deadpan lens.

Bugonia stars Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone as two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a corporate CEO (Willem Dafoe), convinced he’s an alien planning to conquer Earth. What follows is a darkly comic descent into delusion, paranoia, and the absurd theater of human behavior.

The teaser is both eerie and eccentric—sterile laboratories, insectoid visuals, interrogation set-pieces, and pitch-black humor abound. Lanthimos leans into his trademark tonal tightrope: somewhere between unsettling sci-fi and existential satire. Stone, continuing her striking run of collaborations with the director, plays it coolly detached, while Plemons spirals through wild-eyed obsession.

Visually meticulous and thematically loaded, the film seems poised to dissect late capitalism, human fear, and the dangers of unchecked belief systems. Featuring a supporting cast that includes Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, and Mamoudou Athie, Bugonia promises to be both profoundly weird and piercingly relevant.

The film opens in theaters this October, distributed by Focus Features.

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