The next joint from Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, and Jesse Plemmons has a release date

If you watched Poor Things and wondered where the hell Bella found the energy for her nonstop world tour, she probably absorbed some of it from Yorgos Lanthimos during her creation. Clearly not one to rest on his laurels, the Oscar-nominated director has set a premiere date for his next film—his third in as many years—which will descend on theaters November 7, 2025.

The film, titled Bugonia, sees Lanthimos once again reunite with his now-repertory players, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Adapted from the South Korean sci-fi comedy, Save the Green Planet!, Deadline reports that the film is about “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 screenplay was written by Will Tracy, whose previous credits include The Regime, The Menu, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, and the infamous “Bitey” episode of Succession.

The second conspiracy-obsessed man has not yet been revealed (maybe Colin Farrell will finally return to the mix?), but Stone will presumably play the maybe-extraterrestrial CEO. If so, that would be a fun archetype to add to her collection of Lanthimos roles, which also include a reanimated corpse in Poor Things, lover to Queen Anne in The Favourite, and three separate characters in Kinds Of Kindness. The latter was Plemons’ first film with the director, but he also plays multiple characters and won Best Actor at Cannes for it, so he’s catching up quick.

This week, we listed Kinds Of Kindness as one of the best films of 2024 so far. In her review of the film for The A.V. Club, Farah Cheded wrote, “Following Poor Things’ brief foray into happy endings, Kinds Of Kindness sees Lanthimos return to the kind of movie it feels perverse to say you ‘enjoy.’ In short: The Greek freak is back.” We can’t wait to see what he pulls out of his bag of tricks this time.