What strike?
I presume Ari Aster’s “Eddington” will be SAG-exempted, potentially due to it being an A24 movie. Its production start date is coming up very soon.
Aster and Joaquin Phoenix were seen in New Mexico doing some location scouting for their upcoming Western comedy. At least that’s what Phoenix and Aster told the locals in Estancia, New Mexico.
The film, rumoured to be about a Sheriff and a Mayor who are at odds with each other, 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 in late summer. I’m thinking that maybe now it’ll happen in the fall.
Aster had originally spoken about “Eddington” during an AMA on Reddit. It seems as though he’s been working on this one for a while:
“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.”
Aster is coming off the polarizing “Beau is Afraid,” he’s also the twisted 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.”