- Stone, 35, earned Oscar nominations for her first two films with Lanthimos, 50, 2018’s The Favourite and 2023’s Poor Things
- She will also reunite with him in this year’s Kinds of Kindness, which doesn’t have a release date, and now this new remake, according to Variety
- This project has been in the works for several years, with filming now slated to take place this summer in the U.K.
Emma Stone is eyeing yet another team-up with Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet.
Stone, 35, earned Oscar nominations for her first two films with Lanthimos, 50, 2018’s The Favourite and 2023’s Poor Things.
She will also reunite with him in this year’s Kinds of Kindness, which doesn’t have a release date, and now this new remake, according to Variety.
This project has been in the works for several years, with filming now slated to take place this summer in the U.K.
The original South Korean film by director Jang Joon-hwan was released in 2003, following a man (Shin Ha-kyun) who believes aliens are about to infiltrate Earth.
Emma Stone is eyeing yet another team-up with Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, a remake of the South Korean film Save the Green Planet
Stone, 35, earned Oscar nominations for her first two films with Lanthimos, 50, 2018’s The Favourite and 2023’s Poor Things
Convinced he’s trying to save the planet, he sets out to kidnap a businessman (Baek Yoon-sik) who he’s convinced is actually an alien.
The film follows the kidnapper, businessman, the kidnapper’s girlfriend (Hwang Jeong-min) and a detective (Lee Jae-yong) as they engage in a battle of wits.
The original film became a cult hit, winning numerous prizes at festivals and earning Jang the Golden Bell Award for best new director in Korea.
Original director Jang was previously attached to take the helm on the English-language remake, from a script by Will Tracy (The Menu).
The report adds that Stone would likely play a ‘supporting role,’ though no specifics were given at this time.
Lanthimos will also team up with producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe at Element Pictures for the sixth time.
Element will produce alongside Ari Aster (Midsommar) through his Square Peg production company and the original Korean distributor CJ ENM (previously CJ Entertainment).
Aside from Kinds of Kindness, Stone will also next be seen in the highly-anticipated Cruella 2, which is currently in pre-production.
The report adds that Stone would likely play a ‘supporting role,’ though no specifics were given at this time
Lanthimos will also team up with producers Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe at Element Pictures for the sixth time
Stone won the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Poor Things back in January, where she praised director Yorgos
‘Playing Bella was unbelievable. I think this is a rom-com. I see this as a rom-com, but in the sense that Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person,’ she added
Stone won the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Bella Baxter in Poor Things back in January, where she praised director Yorgos.
‘Yorgos, I don’t know what I could say to you that I haven’t said already, but I will forever be grateful that we met, forever,’ she said.
‘Playing Bella was unbelievable. I think this is a rom-com. I see this as a rom-com, but in the sense that Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person,’ she added.
‘She accepts the good and the bad in equal measure, and that really made me look at life differently, that all of it counts, and all of it is important,’ she added.
