Yorgos Lanthimos Reportedly Directing ‘Save the Green Planet!’ Remake for Producer Ari Aster

We learned back in 2020 that Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) would be producing an English-language remake of 2003’s wacky Korean genre-bender Save the Green Planet!, and Variety reports this week that Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) is on board to direct.

Variety details, “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).”

Joon-hwan Jang wrote and directed the original movie.

In the film, “Byeong-gu believes Earth is on the verge of an alien invasion and that he’s the only one who can save it. With his loyal girlfriend’s help, he kidnaps and brutally tortures corporate execs and politicians he believes to be aliens in disguise.”

A complete genre mashup, from sci-fi to comedy to horror with paranoia and extreme violence, Save the Green Planet is full of shocking moments and unexpected twists.

Ari Aster and Square Peg partner Lars Knudsen said in a 2020 statement, “Swinging with youthful abandon between white-knuckle suspense, absurd slapstick, grim horror and a deeply felt (and earned) sense of tragedy, Save The Green Planet! is one of the most remarkable films to come out of South Korea – among this recent wave or any wave, for that matter.”