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Yorgos Lanthimos Sets Remake of Korean Fantasy Film ‘Save the Green Planet’ With ‘Poor Things’ Producer Element Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)


'Poor Things' director Yorgos Lanthimos will reteam with Element Pictures on the remake of 'Save the Green Planet,' a South Korean fantasy comedy.

“ Poor Things ” director Yorgos Lanthimos will reteam with Element Pictures on a remake of South Korean fantasy comedy “ Save the Green Planet, ” Variety has learned. Lanthimos — whose latest film, “Poor Things,” is nominated for 11 Oscars and just won five BAFTAs (including best actress for Emma Stone) — is expected to start shooting the movie in the U.K. and New York this summer. The long-gestated project, which seems to be a perfect Lanthimos vehicle, is an eccentric black comedy involving a disillusioned young man who captures and tortures a businessman whom he believes to be part of an alien invasion.

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