Bugonia to Begin Streaming on Peacock December 26
From five-time Academy Award nominee Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia will begin streaming next week (December 26) exclusively on Peacock. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has been praised by critics and audiences alike.
Nominated for 3 Golden Globe Awards and 3 Critics Choice Awards, Focus Features’ psychological thriller stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone.
In Bugonia, two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. The movie is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan.
The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. Lanthimos directs from a screenplay by Will Tracy, whose recent credits include The Menu and Succession.
Bugonia is produced by Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe; Yorgos Lanthimos via Pith; Emma Stone via Fruit Tree; Square Peg’s Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen; and CJ ENM’s Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.
Yorgos Lanthimos is an internationally renowned, five-time Academy Award-nominated director, producer, and screenwriter known for such films as My Best Friend (2001), Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and Kinds of Kindness (2024).
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