UPDATE: There was a seminar on Saturday at the Belcourt theatre in Nashville for Ari Aster’s go-to cinematographer, Pawel Pogorzelski. He briefly mentioned that Ari's next movie is indeed “Eddington” and will be shooting this summer.
EARLIER: Yesterday, Ari Aster conducted an AMA on Reddit. Not much was divulged, he did admit that before his Q&A at AMC Century City last Friday night, he dropped some acid, but he assured us that his tolerance is extremely high.
He also mentioned that he is seriously interested in adapting the board game "Don't Wake Daddy." Never heard of it, but a reader tells me it would be a perfect fit for Aster’s style. I’ll take their word for it.
Aster also says his favorite movie of 2022 was Jafar Panahi’s “No Bears.” Good taste.
More intriguingly, in a previous AMA from 4 years ago, we find Aster talking about the Western he’s been hinting at in interviews. This could very well be his next film, starring Joaquin Phoenix:
“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.”
Aster went on to say that it was set in a fictional copper mining town in New Mexico and that he hoped to make the film there.
Last month, Aster told The New York Times that his next film would “almost certainly” be this western.