Just under a month after hitting theaters, Yorgos Lanthimos’s newest film is finally coming home. Universal Pictures has announced both the digital and physical media release dates for Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, with at-home viewing available as soon as tomorrow for the sci-fi thriller.
Also starring Stavros Halkias, Aidan Delbis, and Alicia Silverstone, Bugonia will be available to rent or buy on all digital platforms starting tomorrow, November 25. You’ll have to wait a little longer if you want to add Lanthimos’s eleventh film to your collection, as it doesn’t hit 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD until December 23, but it does have a special bonus feature — a mini featurette titled “The Birth of the Bees,” which features Stone and Plemons breaking down what it takes to bring a Yorgos Lanthimos film to life on screen. A perfect Christmas present!
Bugonia serves as an English language remake of the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!, directed by Jang Joon-hwan and starring Shin Ha-kyun. Lanthimos’s version features a script by Will Tracy, and is produced by Ari Aster, Lanthimos, Stone, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Miky Lee, Jerry Kyoungboum Ko, and Lars Knudsen. The film marks Stone’s fourth collaboration with Lanthimos, after working on The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness. The film’s synopsis is as follows, for those who have yet to see it:
A wildly entertaining psychological thriller, the film follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap a powerful CEO they believe is an alien out to destroy humanity. What begins as a paranoid act spirals into a battle of delusions and control—one as viscerally unpredictable as it is provocative.
Bugonia hits digital on November 25, and arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 23.
