From the Editor's Desk

21 Years Later, a Forgotten Sci-Fi Movie is Getting Remade By the Perfect Director

Yorgos Lanthimos is a restless filmmaker. After his coming-of-age Victorian sci-fi Poor Things helped Emma Stone earn an Oscar, he moved on to a triptych of shorts, Kinds of Kindness, which also features Stone. Now, while Lanthimos shows off Kinds of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, his next project has landed a distributor (and, yes, Emma Stone is in it too).

According to Variety, Lanthimos’ next movie, Bugonia, will be released by Focus Features, a departure after Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness were distributed by Searchlight. It’s also written by Will Tracy, a Succession alum and showrunner of the recent HBO series The Regime, instead of Lanthimos’ usual collaborators, Tony McNamara and Efthimis Fillipou.

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