5 years in the past, Aster revealed throughout a Reddit AMA that “Eddington” was practically his first film. Per Aster:
“Though it is type of a — I do not know should you’d name it a revisionist Western. It is up to date; one foot is within the Western and one foot is much more closely within the noir style. So it is like a movie noir ensemble Western darkish comedy.”
One 12 months later, throughout an AMA for “Midsommar,” Aster elaborated:
“For like 5 years, I used to be attempting to get that Western-noir darkish ensemble comedy going. That will not be the subsequent one, by the way in which, although I do nonetheless wish to make it very badly. I made ‘Hereditary’ first, however I at all times had ‘Midsommar’ in my again pocket, prefer it was proper there in me.”
Flash ahead to March 2023, when Aster instructed The New York Occasions that his subsequent movie would “nearly actually” be a Western that includes Phoenix. The one different element Aster has let slip is that the movie is ready in a New Mexico copper-mining city.
What would an Aster Western-noir appear like? After three movies, the director has established himself as one thing of a style satirist. “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” are straight-up horror, however the character dynamics are so overheated that the flicks edge into camp. At the very least, that is how they play for me. I do know individuals who thought “Hereditary” was one of many scariest films of the 2000s. I assumed it was a completely intentional hoot.
I would like to see Aster take a skewed, Nicholas Ray method to the Western and make his “Johnny Guitar.” However after the weird “Beau Is Afraid,” it is a idiot’s errand to pin him down. Aster is a befuddling unique.