Hereditary and Midsommar writer-director Ari Aster has reportedly set Scapegoat as his fifth feature.
Sources tell Deadline that Scarlett Johansson is set to star in the film, which will reunite Aster with distributor A24.
As is always the case with Aster’s work, plot details are being kept under wraps. Even the genre is unknown at this time.
Aster and his partner Lars Knudsen will produce through their Square Peg (Midsommar, Bugonia).
Scapegoat is slated to enter production later this year to accommodate Johansson’s busy production schedule. The Oscar nominee just wrapped on Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist and will shoot The Batman: Part II this summer.
Aster established himself as a modern master of horror with the one-two punch of 2018’s Hereditary and 2019’s Midsommar. He went on to helm Beau Is Afraid in 2023 followed by Eddington, which premiered at Cannes last year.