Bugonia is a 2025 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. This is an English remake of a 2003 South Korean film called Save the Green Planet! which was directed by Jang Joon-hwan. In Bugonia Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz, who together with his cousin Don, played by Aidan Delbis, kidnap and imprison CEO Michelle Fuller, played by Emma Stone, whom Teddy believes to be an alien.

Time Stamps:

• (04:41) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
• (18:26) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
• (28:54) Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)
• (57:13) Spoilers
• (1:18:34) Next Time: Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025)

Works Cited:

• The Body Snatchers (Jack Finney, 1955)
• Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993)
• Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)
• Commentary: Friends of this L.A. teen will soon find out his big secret: He's co-starring in 'Bugonia' - Los Angeles Times (Mary McNamara, 2025)
• The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
• Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009)
• The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018)
• Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman, 1993)
• The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2007)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978)
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017)
• Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024)
• Klute (Alan Pakula, 1971)
• Leo DiCaprio: Alien Seductor? So Says Director Jang Jun-Hwan. - The Village Voice (Chuck Stephens, 2005)
• The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
• The Parallax View (Alan Pakula, 1974)
• Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023)
• Riyadh Comedy Festival criticized by Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch : NPR (Chloe Veltman, 2025)
• Review: 'Bugonia' is definitely about alienation, if not aliens themselves : NPR (Glen Weldon, 2025)
• Save the Green Planet! (Jang Joon-hwan, 2003)
• They Live (John Carpenter, 1988)

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