Emma Stone was obliged to cut her hair quite short for her bitch executive role in Yorgos Lanthimos‘s Bugonia (Focus Features, 10.24) . That’s why she had a pixie during the Oscar telecast.
Bugonia began shooting in England last July. The dp is cinematographer Robbie Ryan (The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness).
Based on Jang Joon-hwan‘s 22-year-old Save The Green Planet!, which I never, ever want to see, Bugonia (Focus Features, 10.24) is about two submental lowlife beekeepers (Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis) who “kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet earth.”
Great — so we get to hang for a couple of hours with a pair of hoodie-wearing idiots. And it turns out that Stone’s character, Teddy, a CEO of a pharmaceutical firm, is in fact an alien…right?
From Save The Green Planet! Wiki page: “When the aliens, who were real all along, arrive and beam up the executive aboard their ship, it’s revealed that he is in fact the alien king himself. Disgusted and angered by the torture and corruption and evils of the world, he deems Earth a failed experiment and blasts it from creation.”