Following ‘The Favourite,’ ‘Poor Things’ and the upcoming ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos may reunite with ‘Save the Green Planet!’

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Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos are on a winning streak and showing no signs of stopping.

Stone, the star and producer of Poor 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 to Variety, 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,” per Variety. “A battle of wits ensues between the captor, his devoted girlfriend, the businessman and a private detective.”

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Poor Things marked the second collaboration between Stone and Lanthimos, who previously worked on 2018’s The Favourite. Save the Green Planet! will be their fourth feature-length film together, after the upcoming Kinds 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 a 2022 silent short film, Bleat.

At a 2023 New York Film Festival screening of that short, the recent BAFTA Award winner joked to the crowd that all of Lanthimos’ movies, including The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The 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.

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

On Monday, Variety reported 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.

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Poor Things, adapted by Tony McNamara from Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel, stars Stone as Bella Baxter, a woman reanimated with the brain of her unborn child. It costars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael and Christopher Abbott.

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

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At the upcoming 96th Academy Awards, Poor Things is nominated in 11 categories, including best picture, Stone for best actress and Lanthimos for best director.

When accepting her Golden Globe Award in 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 of Poor Things, Lanthimos discussed pushing the envelope with the La La Land actress 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 includes Cruella 2, the sequel to her 2021 Disney film.