Ari Aster and Joaquin Phoenix set to team up again for 'Eddington' a contemporary Western-Noir Comedy.
Aster speaking of the project 4 years ago on an Ask Me Anything;
“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.”
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It's said to be taking place during the COVID pandemic, set in a fictional copper mining town in New Mexico. It's to begin filming this summer according to Pawel Pogorzelski (Ari Asters go to cinematographer). share