Bugonia: Release date news, cast details and more about the upcoming sci-fi comedy starring Jesse Plemons

Jesse Plemons will be chasing Emma Stone in their next film called Bugonia. The trailer already looks funny, and the former is one conspiracy-obsessed individual who thinks there's something fishy about the latter, who is one high-powered CEO. Other than them, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone, and more are in the film, too.

Yorgos Lanthimos is directing the film. He has already worked with Emma Stone on films like Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). The latter also got him an Academy Award nomination. His other works include The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), and more.

Ari Aster, who is known for making elevated horror films, is attached to Bugonia as a producer alongside Emma Stone, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, and more. As of now, he has directed four films: Hereditary (2018), Midsommar (2019), and Beau is Afraid (2023). Another of his films, Eddington, will be released on July 18, 2025. Emma Stone is in the film too.

When will Bugonia release?

Focus Features is distributing the film in the US. (Image via Focus Features)

Bugonia is coming on October 24, 2025, in a limited release and will get a wider release on October 31, 2025. The film will be released on the same day as Mortal Kombat II, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Regretting You, and A House of Dynamite.

The film's cast

Director and writer Damien Chazelle and star Emma Stone from the new musical La La Land. (Image via Getty)

As of now, we have 13 confirmed names of people who will be appearing in the movie. However, roles for all the actors have yet to be confirmed. You can find the list below.

Jesse Plemons as Teddy
Emma Stone as Michelle
Alicia Silverstone - unknown
Stavros Halkias - unknown
Parvinder Shergill as a doctor
Aidan Delbis - unknown
Vanessa Eng as Corey
Yaisa as Aurora Sumner
Cedric Dumornay as Chris
Marc T. Lewis as Tony
Momma Cherri as Tina
J. Carmen Galindez Barrera as Ricky
Roger Carvalho as a young detective

More names might be added to the crew, but this is it as of this writing.

What is the film about?

It is a remake of a South Korean film. (Image via Focus Features)

It will follow a couple of conspiracy-obsessed friends who are trying to save the world. The film's synopsis, as Deadline presents it, goes like this:

"Bugonia follows 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."

Although this is the only detail about the film's plot, Bugonia is itself a remake of a South Korean film called Save the Green Planet! If you fancy knowing more about what you can expect from the film, just go through its plot once.

A breakdown of the film's trailer

It's a short trailer but explains the story well, or at least the mentality of these conspiracy-obsessed guys. They think of Emma Stone's Michelle as an alien who is trying to control the world. The narration clears it out as Plemons resonates it with bees. Like bees work and die for the queen bee, people work for Emma Stone. That's what they believe.

And around the 0:40 mark in the trailer, we get to hear Green Day's 1994 classic, Basket Case. That song itself will give you a proper hint of what's going on in there.

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