Jesse Plemons is reportedly starring in Yorgos Lanthimos’ remake of Save the Green Planet!
According to Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider, Plemons is in talks to star in Lanthimos’ Save the Green Planet, which is a remake of a 2003 sci-fi comedy movie written and directed by Jang Joon-hwan.
In February 2024, Variety reported that Emma Stone — who previously worked with Lanthimos on 2018’s The Favourite and 2023’s Poor Things, while she’s attached to star in his next movie, Kinds of Kindness — is also being eyed to star in the movie, which is expected to begin filming this summer.
Plemons also stars in Kinds of Kindness, which is scheduled to be released in the United States on June 21, 2024. He’s additionally known for playing Todd in Breaking Bad and has appeared in movies such as 2018’s Game Night, 2020’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, 2021’s Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021’s The Power of the Dog, and, most recently, 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
He’ll next be seen in Alex Garland’s Civil War, a new A24 thriller releasing in the United States on April 12, 2024.
What else do we know about Save the Green Planet?
Midsommar and Beau Is Afraid’s Ari Aster is producing Lanthimos’ remake alongside Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe.
“Lee Byeong-gu is convinced that there are aliens from Andromeda among us, plotting to destroy Earth,” the synopsis for the 2003 movie reads. “He believes that Kang Man-shik, the head of a chemical production company, is their leader, and he kidnaps him. Holing up in his secret lair, Byeong-gu interrogates and tortures the supposed alien, hoping that he will confess to his crimes against humanity and call off the planned destruction of the planet before it is too late.”
Lanthimos’ Save the Green Planet does not yet have a release date.
