Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos brought Bugonia, their fourth feature together, to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
Emma Stone, a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Actress, presented Bugonia with Yorgos Lanthimos at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Friday 10 October 2025. It was the film’s UK premiere and a BFI London Film Festival gala.
Stone was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1988 and made her stage debut at 11. Easy A gave her a first leading role in 2010. La La Land and Poor Things brought her the two Oscars.
Bugonia is her fourth film with Lanthimos, after The Favourite in 2018, Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness.
The film is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, adapted by Will Tracy. Two young men kidnap the chief executive of a major company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying the Earth.
The film had premiered in competition at Venice at the end of August and reached British cinemas on 31 October. It later earned Stone Academy Award nominations as both actress and producer.
Stone plays the executive and Jesse Plemons the man who takes her. Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone complete the cast.