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‘Disappointment Blvd’: Parker Posey and More Join the Cast of Ari Aster’s New A24 Movie
It’s still hard to tell if it’s a genre movie of any sort at this time, but Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) has set up his next project, which will reunite the filmmaker with A24.
The film is titled Disappointment Blvd., and Joaquin Phoenix was recently attached to star. Deadline provides an update on the project today, revealing more of the cast.
Parker Posey (“Lost in Space”), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark) and Zoe Lister-Jones (the director of The Craft: Legacy) have joined a cast that also includes Nathan Lane (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”), Patti LuPone (“Hollywood”), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Kylie Rogers (“Yellowstone”).
Deadline’s report notes that the film is being described as “an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.”
A24 will produce and finance the film, penned by Aster.
Aster and Lars Knudsen are producing for Square Peg.
Aster had teased last year that his next movie would be a “nightmare comedy,” you may recall, but it’s possible he was referring to an entirely different project from Disappointment Blvd.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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