"We liked the idea of new life beginning from the death of this big, lumbering beast that seemed to be thematically close to what was in the story, and also it sounded like a bug, it sounded like a flower, it sounded a bit like an alien planet or a foreign country. It sounded a little bit like a mental disorder you might come down with."
"I didn't have high hopes for whatever this project was, said Tracy, because he was asking me to adapt a movie I hadn't seen before. I wasn't interested in adapting anything at that moment. I'd never written an adaptation before. I thought, 'OK, I'll watch this thing.' I figured it would probably lead to something else down the road that we'd find that we could do together."
"All I'm looking for is something that feels writable to me, he said, and if it feels writable, then I go for it. I felt within the first five minutes, 'I know how to do this.'"
Yorgos Lanthimos agreed to direct a screenplay developed by Ari Aster and written by Will Tracy, adapted from the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!. Lanthimos contributed the title Bugonia, drawn from a Greek myth about beasts arising from a dead ox, and Tracy appreciated its layered resonances—bug, flower, alien planet, and mental disorder. Aster brought the project to Tracy after admiring his work on Succession and The Menu. Tracy initially hesitated because he had not written an adaptation, but he found the original film writable within minutes. Bugonia blends mythic motifs and dark comedy and has grossed $40 million worldwide.
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