Hot on the heel of the announcement that filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is to direct the remake of the Korean movie ‘Save The Green Planet’ BAFTA Winner, Emma Stone has entered into talks to join the cast.
Stone is thought to be up for playing a supporting role. The latest project would mark Lanthimos and Stone’s sixth collaboration. The pair first worked together on ‘The Favourite’ and will next have ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ an anthology film which also stars Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley. ‘Kinds of Kindness’ is slated to be released later this year and could world premiere at Cannes.
Originally a South Korean film directed by Jang Joon-hwan in 2003, the eccentric black comedy involves a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman whom he believes to be part of an alien invasion. A battle of wits ensues between the captor, his devoted girlfriend, the businessman and a private detective.
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Jang himself was previously attached to direct the remake of the film, based on a screenplay by Will Tracy.
Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe at Element Pictures will produce the movie alongside Ari Aster’s Square Peg and CJ ENM (previously named CJ Entertainment). It will mark the sixth collaboration between Lanthimos and Element Pictures.
The project is set to get underway this summer in both the U.K. and New York.
