The pharma CEOs aren’t protected in new trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia

CEOs can be nothing with out the labor of their (sometimes) underpaid staff, and the unfairness of that actuality appears to be what’s inflicting all of the chaos in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ upcoming movie, Bugonia.

A remake of South Korean director Jang Joon-hwan’s 2003 characteristic Save the Inexperienced Planet, Bugonia zooms in on the lifetime of Teddy (Jesse Plemons), a conspiracy-minded beekeeper who works for a large pharmaceutical firm run by Michelle (Emma Stone). As one of many firm’s many employees who spend their days laboring to make a fraction of Michelle’s wage, Teddy sees a whole lot of parallels between himself and the bees who stay solely to serve their queen.

Teddy is aware of that he, like a beehive’s drones, is expendable within the grand scheme of Michelle’s plans as a CEO. Teddy’s frustrations and delusions about an alien invasion persuade him that Michelle in all probability isn’t a human. And that’s sufficient for him to hatch a plot to kidnap his boss beneath the auspices of saving the planet.

Although the trailer skews a bit of whimsical, it’s pretty clear that Lanthimos and author Will Tracy are telling a darkish story about individuals pushed to the sting by financial inequality. The film additionally looks like it’s going to the touch on how individuals not having correct entry to high quality psychological well being care is a really actual societal drawback, which might be going to make Bugonia really feel well timed as hell when the movie hits restricted theaters on October twenty fourth earlier than its vast launch on October thirty first.