Emma Stone and HerPoor ThingsDirector Yorgos Lanthimos in Talks to Team Up for a Fourth Film

Mar. 15, 2025

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on Feb. 18.Photo:Corbis/Getty

Corbis/Getty

Emma StoneandYorgos Lanthimosare on a winning streak and showing no signs of stopping.

Stone, the star and producer ofPoor Things, is reportedly now in talks to sign onto another collaboration with that film’s director:Save the Green Planet!, Lanthimos’ remake of the 2003 South Korean comedy.

According toVariety, the Greek filmmaker, 50, is expected to start shooting this summer in the U.K. and New York. Stone, 35, “would most likely play a supporting role,” per the outlet’s report.

Its story “revolves around a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman whom he believes to be part of an alien invasion,” perVariety. “A battle of wits ensues between the captor, his devoted girlfriend, the businessman and a private detective.”

Poor Thingsmarked the second collaboration between Stone and Lanthimos, who previously worked on 2018’sThe Favourite.Save the Green Planet!will be their fourth feature-length film together, after the upcomingKinds of Kindness,an anthology movie costarring Jesse Plemons, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and more. The growing list of Stone-Lanthimos projects also includes a2022 silent short film,Bleat.

At a 2023 New York Film Festival screening of that short, the recentBAFTA Award winnerjoked to the crowd that all of Lanthimos’ movies, includingThe Killing of a Sacred DeerandThe Lobster, explore themes related to sex, death and goats. “It’s, like, nonstop, every day. He calls me and he’s like, ‘Goats — what do you think? Death?’ ”

Emma Stone on Jan. 25.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

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The originalSave the Green Planet!, starring Shin Ha-kyun, earned multiple awards in 2003 at film festivals around the world. In 2020, CJ ENM — the studio behindParasiteand other hit Korean films — teamed up withMidsommarfilmmakers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen to produce an English-language remake, perDeadline. Jang Joon-hwan, who helmed the original film, was attached as director.

On Monday,Varietyreported that Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe at Element Pictures will produce the movie alongside both CJ ENM and Aster’s production company Square Peg, with Lanthimos in the director’s chair.

Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone on the set of “Poor Things”.Searchlight Pictures

Searchlight Pictures

At the upcoming96th Academy Awards,Poor Thingsis nominated in 11 categories, including best picture, Stone for best actress and Lanthimos for best director.

When accepting her Golden Globe Awardin January, Stone thanked her frequent collaborator. “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.

At the Venice Film Festival premiere ofPoor Things, Lanthimos discussedpushing the envelopewith theLa La Landactress as his producer-star. “You can understand there is a shorthand [between us] and we can communicate without having to explain or talk too much about things,” he said of their creative partnership.

Stone’s list of upcoming projects also includesCruella 2, the sequel to her 2021 Disney film.

source: people.com