Joey Paur
Curated From geektyrant.com Check Them Out For More Content.
Ari Aster, the director of films such as Hereditary, Midsommar, and most recently Beau is Afraid, has opened up about a feature film project that he eventually wants to make titled Eddington, which he describes as a “western-noir dark comedy.”
During a recent interview during a Reddit AMA session, Aster said of the project: “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”.
While the movie isn’t the next film he makes, it’s one that he eventually wants to get to: “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.”
The director concluded: “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.”
That sounds like it would make for a great and interesting movie, especially with Aster at the helm. He’s such a talented filmmaker and storyteller, he also definitely knows how to make you feel uneasy. Eddington seems like a different style of film for him, and I hope that he ends up making it soon because I’d love to watch it.