553: Yorgos Lanthimos & Will Tracy On The Music Of Bugonia
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Edith Bowman
4.6 • 786 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Our latest guests on Soundtracking are director Yorgos Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy, who join me to discuss their collaboration on Bugonia. A remake of the 2003 South Korean film, Save The Green Planet, it follows the story of two men who kidnap the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, convinced she is an alien intent on destroying Earth.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning. How do I find you on this Monday morning? I am in Scotland at the minute, |
| 0:05.6 | visiting the clan, which has been wonderful, just dropped my niece at school. I had a sea swim |
| 0:10.6 | with my mum yesterday. It was Baltic. The weather is beautiful as look at the window now. Beautiful |
| 0:16.3 | blue sky is not a cloud in the sky in fact, it is blustery great way to start the week blowing off |
| 0:22.0 | the cobwebs thank you for joining me on another episode of soundtracking our latest guest on |
| 0:26.8 | soundtracking our director jorgos lanthamos screenwriter will tracy who join me to discuss their |
| 0:32.5 | collaboration it's a kind of remake reversion of the 2003 South Korean film, Save the Green Planet, |
| 0:40.1 | follows the story of two men who kidnapped the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, |
| 0:45.2 | convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. |
| 0:49.3 | I love Jorgos as a filmmaker and a storyteller. |
| 0:52.7 | The worlds that he creates, the freedom that he gives |
| 0:55.8 | his characters to explore the worlds that they inhabit. Just really give us an opportunity to |
| 1:01.9 | inhabit his world a bit. It's that slightly left of centre filmmaking that I just find brilliant. |
| 1:09.9 | It's so thoughtful as well. There's so much going on. |
| 1:12.5 | And I think really gives the actors the opportunity to explore the characters, to play, |
| 1:17.7 | to find things that are maybe kind of unpredictable. And just one of the many things I love about |
| 1:23.9 | him as a filmmaker. Begonia scored by former soundtrack and guest, Yerskin Fendrix, |
| 1:28.4 | so we'll begin with his cue, Star Saliva. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah. The |
| 1:47.0 | The the way of the world. The |
| 2:03.6 | Oh, The I'm not the The It's so great to have you both here to talk about this film. |
| 3:22.5 | This is a gift. |
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