Joaquin Phoenix and director Ari Aster are teaming up again, and were recently seen out and about scouting for their new movie together Eddington. The actor and director most recently worked together on the tragicomedy movie Beau Is Afraid.
According to an interview via World of Reel, the film is a contemporary western that takes place in a fictional copper 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 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”, he continued.
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