#emma-stone

#emma-stone

Emma Stone, 36, is regarded as one of the best actors of her generation. She's been nominated for four Oscars and won two in the best actress category (" La La Land" in 2017 and "" Poor Things" in 2024). Her range is seemingly unlimited, tugging at hearts in the rom-com "Crazy, Stupid, Love" (2011), playing tennis legend Billie Jean King in "Battle of the Sexes" (2017), and even getting a taste of the superhero genre starring opposite Andrew Garfield in "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012) and its sequel.

In "Bugonia," Stone plays fictional pharmaceutical company CEO Michelle Fuller, who is kidnapped by two conspiracy-obsessed beekeepers (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who are convinced she's an alien. The colorful concept comes from the film's source material - it's loosely a remake of "Save the Green Planet!," a 2003 South Korean dark comedy directed by Jang Joon-hwan - but in the development process, screenwriter Will Tracy ("Succession," "The Menu") ended up making a few big changes.

At the end of Save the Green Planet! the twisted 2003 Korean sci-fi black comedy directed by Jang Joon-hwan, the CEO kidnapped by a conspiracy theorist who believes him to be an alien in disguise is revealed to be... an alien in disguise. Escaping from his captor, the CEO returns to his alien spaceship and orders the destruction of Earth, having become disgusted with the "failed experiment" that is humanity.

In the lobby of the Culver Theater, a tattooed barber named K.C. shaved heads bald in exchange for free tickets for Bugonia. First in line was Matt Lopez, a 29-year-old Disneyland ride operator. "Ever since I saw the trailer about six months ago, I'm like 'yeah, I'm definitely down for this,'" he said as his shoulder length brown locks were lopped off. "So if I'm able to see this early and get a free haircut at the same time, it's a no-brainer."

Yorgos Lanthimos's macabre and amusing new film has a predictably strong performance from Emma Stone, an intestine-shreddingly clamorous orchestral score from Jerskin Fendrix and, most importantly, a wonderful montage finale but frankly it's a very, very long run-up to that big jump. Added to which, there is the question of whether this bizarre if sometimes heavy-handed black comedy has fully earned its eventual pivot to serious tragic issues in the ending.

I don't know about looking down on us, but one of my favourite people who has ever lived is Carl Sagan and I fell madly in love with his philosophy and science and how brilliant he is, the Oscar winner said. He very deeply believed [that] the idea that we're alone in this vast expansive universe not that we're being watched is a pretty narcissistic thing. So, yes, I'm coming out and saying it: I believe in aliens.