Emma Stone a Reptilian? Yorgos Lanthimos' New Film Bugonia Turns Wild Conspiracy Theories into Brilliant Comedy

Get ready: this fall, a comedy is coming your way where the lead character is the CEO of a massive corporation—who gets kidnapped not for ransom, but because her captors believe… she’s an alien. And no, this isn’t a headline from a shady tabloid. It’s Bugonia—a new sci-fi satire directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring the radiant Emma Stone.

At the heart of the story are two young conspiracy theorists who are convinced that the Earth is in danger, and the threat comes from a powerful corporate executive. Their solution? Kidnap her and expose the “truth.” But as always in Lanthimos’ world, the truth is far stranger than fiction.

Yorgos Lanthimos is no stranger to twisted realities. After The Favourite and the Oscar-winning Poor Things, his directorial style is instantly recognizable: plots on the edge of absurdity, characters on the verge of breakdowns, and audiences teetering between laughter and unease. Bugonia looks to follow in that tradition.

For Emma Stone, this marks her fourth collaboration with Lanthimos, and their creative partnership keeps getting bolder. In Poor Things, she evolved from an innocent girl to a goddess of liberation. Now, in Bugonia, she plays a mysterious woman suspected of not even being human. Is she truly a reptilian overlord? Or just a powerful woman in a male-dominated world—automatically making her suspicious?

Bugonia promises to be a sharp satire of today’s society: blind belief in fake news, paranoid hunts for “enemies of humanity,” and the everyday struggle to survive in an increasingly overwhelming world. All of it delivered with Lanthimos’ signature absurdity, dark humor, and philosophical bite.

The exact release date hasn’t been announced yet, but one thing’s certain: October is bringing a premiere that will make you laugh, squirm, and question reality. Because when Emma Stone plays a possible lizard-woman and Yorgos Lanthimos is behind the camera, boredom is not an option.