Alicia Silverstone has joined onto the cast of Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos‘ new sci-fi movie that is set to star Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, according to a report from Variety.
Silverstone is best known for her various roles throughout the 1990s, where she starred in movies like Clueless, Batman & Robin, True Crime, The Babysitter, and more. Silverstone is also set to appear in the upcoming A24 disaster comedy horror movie Y2K.
Silverstone is also no stranger to having to work with Lanthimos, as the Oscar-nominated actress appeared in the 2017 The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
Who else is in the Bugonia cast?
Silverstone will appear in the film alongside Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, with the rest of the cast for the film unknown as of now. The film will follow a pair of conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the CEO of a big company, believing her to be an alien that is trying to destroy Earth.
Bugonia is based on the 2003 Korean sci-fi movie Save the Green Planet! which was directed by Jang Joon-hwan.
“Lee Byeong-gu (Shin Ha-kyun) is convinced that there are aliens from Andromeda among us, plotting to destroy Earth,” the synopsis for the 2003 movie reads. “He believes that Kang Man-shik (Baek Yun-shik), the head of a chemical production company, is their leader, and he kidnaps him. Holing up in his secret lair, Byeong-gu interrogates and tortures the supposed alien, hoping that he will confess to his crimes against humanity and call off the planned destruction of the planet before it is too late.”
The movie is written by Will Tracy. Lathimos produces the movie alongside Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures, Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen of Square Beg, Stone of Fruit Tree, and Miky Lee and Jerry Kyoungboum Ko of CJ ENM.
Lanthimos’ latest film, Kinds of Kindness, also starred both Stone and Plemons. The film will also mark his fourth collaboration with Stone, who previously has worked with Lanthimos on 2018’s The Favourite, 2023’s Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness.
(Source: Variety)
