Ari Aster’s mysterious Western movie for A24, Eddington, casts Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Austin Butler, and extra!
Ari Aster, the twisted filmmaker behind Hereditary, Midsommar, and Beau Is Afraid, is lining up his most star-studded function but, Eddington. Rumored to be a Western, Eddington is moseying near manufacturing with Pedro Pascal (The Final of Us), Emma Stone (Poor Issues), Austin Butler (Dune: Half Two), Joaquin Phoenix (Beau Is Afraid), Luke Grimes (Yellowstone), Deirdre O’Connell (Outer Vary), Michael Ward (High Boy), and Clifton Collins Jr. (Jockey) becoming a member of the first solid.
The mysterious undertaking hails from A24, with Aster directing from his personal script. Moreover, Aster produces alongside Lars Knudsen by way of their Sq. Peg studio. Darius Khondji, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer behind Bardo and Uncut Gems, is on board to make the movie gorgeous, with manufacturing starting as early as this week.
Aster is one among Hollywood’s most talked about filmmakers of current reminiscence. His 2018 horror movie Hereditary, starring Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, and Alex Wolff, nonetheless provides folks nightmares. The visceral and disturbing movie a couple of grieving household haunted by tragic and otherworldly occurrences put Aster on the map as a expertise to look at. Aster adopted Hereditary with the Swedish horror movie Midsommar in 2019. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren, Will Poulter, and William Jackson Harper, Midsommar tells the trippy story of a pair who travels to Northern Europe to go to a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer competition. What begins as an idyllic retreat rapidly devolves into an more and more violent and weird competitors by the hands of a pagan cult.
Lastly, Aster’s Beau Is Afraid stars Joaquin Phoenix as a mild-mannered however anxiety-ridden man who confronts his darkest fears after his mom dies as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey again house.
Beau Is Afraid solely earned $12 million worldwide, however the movie’s underperformance hasn’t soured Aster’s popularity as a risk-taking filmmaker in a position to produce thought-provoking movies. Eddington is full of A-list celebrities, together with Emma Stone, who gained a Finest Actress Oscar for her riveting efficiency in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Issues on the 96th Academy Awards.
We’re anxious to study extra about Eddington past its Western setting. How about you? Tell us what you suppose within the feedback part beneath.
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Born and raised in New York, then immigrated to Canada, Steve Seigh has been a JoBlo.com editor, columnist, and critic since 2012. He began with Ink & Pixel, a column celebrating the magic and evolution of animation, earlier than launching the companion YouTube sequence Animation Motion pictures Revisited. He is additionally the host of the Speaking Comics Podcast, a personality-driven audio present specializing in comedian books, movie, music, and extra. You will not often catch him with out headphones on his head and pancakes on his breath.
