Ari AsterThe next movie has been confirmed to be a Western, with more details revealed.
Ari AsterThe next movie has been confirmed to be a Western, with more details revealed.
Aster most recently directed the surreal tragic comedy Beau Is Afraid, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a man who makes a journey home to his mother. Aster has also directed films such as the acclaimed horror film Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, and the folk horror film Midsommar, starring Florence Pugh. Now he has shared details about his next film.
Accordingly At the republic (above world of role), his next film is called Eddington. It’s a contemporary western set in a fictional New Mexico copper mill town during the pandemic.
“There was a time I thought Midsommar would be the debut film and there was a time I thought another script called Eddington could be the first film.” Aster once told a Reddit AMA. “For about five years I’ve been trying to get this dark western noir ensemble comedy off the ground. That won’t be the next one, by the way, although I still really want to make it. I did Hereditary first, but Midsommar was always in my back pocket like it was right there in me.”
“Although it’s sort of — I don’t know if you’d call it a revisionist Western. It’s contemporary; One foot is in the western and one foot is even more in the noir genre. So it’s like a dark western comedy by a film noir ensemble.”
When will Ari Aster’s Eddington be out?
There is no current release date for the film.