Emma Stone Teams with ‘Poor Things’ Director Again in Wild ‘Bugonia’ Trailer

Emma Stone is in for another wild Yorgos Lanthimos ride in the first preview of Bugonia.

On Thursday, June 26, Focus Features released a teaser trailer for the upcoming Lanthimos-directed comedy written by Will Tracy, and starring Stone, 36, plus Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias and Alicia Silverstone.

Bugonia marks the fourth collaboration between Stone and Lanthimos, 51, who previously worked together on The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024)

“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,” reads a synopsis for the film.

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The trailer begins with Plemons’ character Teddy Gatz in a beekeepers’ uniform, surrounded by the insects as he says in a voiceover, “It all starts with something magnificent: a flower, then a honey bee. The workers gather pollen for the queen.”

It’s clear Teddy is speaking in metaphors, as the footage soon cuts to Stone’s power-suit-clad CEO character Michelle Fuller strutting importantly through an office building.

“But the bees, they’re dying,” Teddy continues. “And that’s the way they planned it: to make us the same as the bees.”

“But it is not in control anymore. We are,” he adds, before Green Day’s “Basket Case” begins playing over a montage of conspiracy-laced madness between Teddy and his plan partner (Delbis).

“How can you tell she’s an alien?” the latter asks, to which Teddy replies, “Well, the signs are obvious.”

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Bugonia is co-produced by Stone and Lanthimos, as well as Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Ari Aster, Lars Knudsen, Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko.

The film comes of the heels of Stone’s latest movie Eddington, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May ahead of a July 18 theatrical release.

Stone previously won her second Best Actress Academy Award for her head-turning role in Lanthimos’ Poor Things. (Her first was for La La Land, in 2017.)

Bugonia is in limited theaters Oct. 24, and opens wide Oct. 31.