Details Revealed for Ari Aster’s Western-Noir Comedy EDDINGTON

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.