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Ari Aster Teases His Fourth Movie; A Western Starring Joaquin Phoenix?
In the wake of horror movies Hereditary and Midsommar, Ari Aster is back this year with his third feature film, a nightmare comedy titled Beau Is Afraid. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, A24 will be releasing the film in theaters on April 21, but what’s NEXT for Aster?
Speaking with The New York Times this week, Aster has seemingly confirmed that he’ll next be re-teaming with Joaquin Phoenix for a whole different type of genre movie.
The New York Times writes, “In coy half-nods, Aster let on that [he and Phoenix] have another project in development; his next film will “almost certainly” be a western.”
In Beau Is Afraid, “A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster.”
Aster tells The NY Times of the experience making the movie with Joaquin Phoenix, “It was the best experience of my life. But it also taught me how I want to work in the future — the seriousness with which I expect an actor to approach any given part.”
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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