Jesse Plemons thinks Emma Stone is an alien (understandable) in the trailer for Bugonia, the actress’ latest collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos.

Focus Features released the trailer online this week, just as the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The science-fiction black comedy follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap high-powered CEO Michelle Fuller (Stone) after they become convinced that she is an alien who intends to destroy Earth.

In addition to Stone and Plemons, Bugonia also stars Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.

The project is produced by Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee, and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko. The screenplay is by Will Tracy. The film is said to have been inspired by the 2003 Korean sci-fi film Save The Green Planet! from director Jang Joon-hwan.

“Again, unfortunately, not much of the dystopia in this film is very fictional,” explained Lanthimos when presenting the film. “A lot of it is very reflective of the real world. If anything, this film says this is happening now… Actually, it became more relevant as time went by,” he continued, referring to the fact that he first encountered the screenplay three years ago. “Humanity is facing a reckoning very soon. People need to choose the right path, otherwise, I don’t know how much time [left] with everything that’s happening in the world, with technology, AI, with wars, climate change, the denial of all these things and how desensitised we’ve become to all of these things. [The movie] is more of a reflection of our times and hopefully it will trigger people to think about what’s happening today, all around the world.”

The film earned a six-minute standing ovation at Venice. Bugonia follows Stone’s starring role in Poor Things — also directed by Yorgos Lanthimos — in late 2023 and Kinds of Kindness last year.

Bugonia releases in cinemas from October 24th, 2025. Watch the trailer below: