Midsummer Director’s Pandemic Thriller loses cooling trailer with Emma Stone and more

Emma StenThe Joaquin PhoenixThe Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler Takes film groups back to spring 2020 in their new thriller.

On Monday 14 April, A24 debuted the first teaser trailer for director Ari Aster’s (HereditaryThe Midsummer) New film Eddington.

A synopsis notes that it takes place in May 2020, when “a distance between a small -town heritage (Phoenix, 50) and mayor (Pascal, 50) sparks a pulpit as a neighbor is sprouted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”

The trailer opens with pictures of Phoenix, Butler, Pascal and Stone’s characters who speak – along with other images which means that Phoenix Sheriff has attacked protesters in their city – before revealing Phoenix character “judge cabinet“On his phone before bed.

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Eddington Aster and Phoenix are other movies together. They cooperated on the 2023 Beau is afraid. Phoenix recently played the 2024 Joker: Folia with two. Stone has meanwhile branched out in recent years with films such as Bad things and Kind of kindnessLike the 2023 Showtime drama The curse.

Butler, which last appeared in the 2024 Bikriders and Dune: Part twodescribed filming Eddington as “a wild adventure that I was allowed to continue” while I was talking to Hollywood Reporter In June 2024.

“I got to play a character that is very different from everything I’ve done. Ari and I’ve been friends a bit, and it was fantastic to see him on set,” Butler said at that time. “He is such an incredible filmmaker and he has such trust and such humor and wild imagination. I really loved to work with him.”

Eddington will premiere at 2025 Cannes Film Festival In May. The film is then in the theater July 18.