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Despite nan resounding financial and captious occurrence of Ari Aster‘s debut characteristic Hereditary, nan scary auteur has nary contiguous plans for a followup.
Amid nan American Cinematheque’s yearly Bleak Week — which featured a lineup of his fare, including Midsommar: Director’s Cut, Beau Is Afraid and Eddington — nan filmmaker said astatine a Q&A yesterday, revealing he has a book group successful that universe, but nary contiguous plans to create it further.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster said, per Gold Derby. “It ne'er feels for illustration nan correct time. It’s a prequel, not a sequel, truthful I don’t cognize wherever this goes.”
Released successful 2018, nan occult movie put Aster connected nan representation and broke records for A24 astatine nan time, having now amassed a worldwide container agency gross of complete $90 million. The supernatural psychological horror, written and helmed by Aster, follows a family rocked by grief, who originates to acquisition sinister and inexplicable occurrences. It stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd and Gabriel Byrne.
Though Aster is leaving Graham family unsocial for now, nan multihyphenate is presently moving connected different film, which will beryllium his latest aft 2025’s satirical neo-noir Eddington.
Last month, sources told Deadline that Aster is directing nan pic Scapegoat from a book he penned, with Scarlett Johansson set to star. Insiders added that Aster will reunite pinch A24, which has released his past 4 films, arsenic nan distributor. As per usual, crippled specifications are being kept nether wraps.
Outside of directing, Square Peg, founded by Lars Knudsen and Aster, has set nan return of its filmmaker mentorship initiative, Square Peg Social. The 2nd version will return spot successful Austin from Sept. 17-21, pinch submissions now open.
