Ari Aster’s interview with Italian outlet La Reppublica hasn’t been covered by any outlets.
There are details about his next film, titled “Eddington,” which, according to him, is a contemporary western that takes place during the pandemic. The film’s setting is a fictional copper mining town in New Mexico.
Back in April, Ari Aster’s go-to cinematographer, Pawel Pogorzelski briefly mentioned that “Eddington” would be shooting this summer. Aster spoke about the Western around four years ago during a Reddit AMA:
“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. 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.”
Has he adapted it so that it takes place during the pandemic? His La Reppublica interview seems to be indicating that. Last month, Aster told The New York Times that his next film would “almost certainly” be this western.
Aster is coming off the polarizing “Beau is Afraid,” he’s also the mind behind “Hereditary” and “Midsommar.” He’s built up quite the fanbase with these three films. I would assume A24, who have backed him since his debut, will be taking care of “Eddington.”