Ari Aster‘s next movie has been confirmed to be a Western, with more details revealed.
Aster most recently directed the surreal tragicomedy Beau Is Afraid, starring Joaquin Phoenix a a man going on a journey home to his mother. Aster has also directed movies like the acclaimed horror film Hereditary starring Toni Collette and the folk horror movie Midsommar with Florence Pugh. Now, he has shared details about his next movie.
According to La Republica (via World of Reel), his next film is called Eddington. It is a contemporary western set in a fictional cooper mining town in New Mexico during the pandemic.
“There was a period of time when I thought Midsommar would be the debut feature, and there was a period when I thought another script called Eddington might be the first movie,” Aster once told a Reddit AMA. “For like five years, I was trying to get that Western-noir dark ensemble comedy going. That won’t be the next one, by the way, though I do still want to make it very badly. I made Hereditary first, but I always had “Midsommar” in my back pocket, like it was right there in me.”
“Although it’s sort of a – 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 heavily in the noir genre. So it’s like a film noir ensemble western dark comedy.”
When does Ari Aster’s Eddington release?
There is no current release date for the film.
