Ari Aster’s A24 movie ‘Eddington’ casts Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler
Director Ari Aster has lined up a star-studded cast for his upcoming movie Eddington, set to be released through A24, including double Oscar-winner Emma Stone.
Days after winning her second Academy Award for ‘Best Actress’ for her performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, Stone has signed on to partner with the Hereditary and Midsommar director, alongside recent Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal.
Dune: Part Two star Austin Butler is also coming along for the ride, along with Yellowstone‘s Luke Grimes, Outer Range‘s Deirdre O’Connell, Top Boy‘s Micheal Ward, and renowned character actor Clifton Collins Jr.
Plot details remain under wraps for now, but it was reported last year that Aster would be reuniting with Beau Is Afraid star Joaquin Phoenix for Eddington, a project that the filmmaker has mentioned on a number of occasions over the years.
In a 2019 Reddit AMA, Aster shed some light on Eddington, which he thought “might be the first movie”. The director eventually allowed other projects, such as Midsommar, to take precedence but revealed the upcoming movie had been in development for five years already.
Aster described it as a “Western-noir dark ensemble comedy,” and said, “I do still want to make it very badly.”
Production is scheduled to begin this week with the ensemble now largely locked in place, so Aster isn’t wasting any time on getting Eddington up and running at long last, finally realising a film he’s been working on for at least half a decade.
In a three-star review of Aster’s most recent movie, Beau Is Afraid, Far Out wrote: “Beau is Afraid is undoubtedly entertaining; however, a problem arises because its characters are undoubtedly curious at the same time as their development being eschewed in favour of a thematic and visual showing-off. Having said that, Aster’s film is frequently laugh-out-loud funny, whether it be from Nathan Lane’s excellence or through the subtle placement of a prop. So too is the set design, not to mention the intoxicating mid-way point animation section, gloriously and painstakingly put together.”
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