After giving us “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” in 2018 and 2019, Ari Aster is already working on a new project. Interviewed by the Associated Students Program Board at UC Santa Barbara, the filmmaker discussed what might be coming down the pipeline for him and it sounds batshit crazy. While he didn’t go into detail about this new movie, Aster did say that it will be a 4-hour “nightmare comedy.
In an AMA on Reddit last year, Aster had mentioned that his “next one will either be a zonky nightmare comedy or a big, sickly domestic melodrama.” Cue in the “zonky nightmare comedy” project and set aside the domestic melodrama. We have no further details about this film, but the short description is enough to whet our appetites until we get more intel on this one.
Aster turned heads at Sundance 2018 with his incredibly realized neo-horror film “Hereditary,” the following year he polarized film fans with his love/hate statement “Midsommar,” a film which I was lukewarm on upon initial viewing until I finally caught up with the 3-hour director’s cut at home and had a 180 opinion reversal (although I still think it’s not as accomplished a movie as “Hereditary”).