“Beau Is Afraid,” the upcoming horror film from “Midsommar” director Ari Aster. Joaquin Phoenix stars in the film as a successful businessman, and the narrative is said to follow the character through several decades.
"A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and cleverly depraved new film from writer-director Ari Aster."
The Oscar winner plays the titular Beau in Ari Aster's latest A24 film, "Beau Is Afraid." While the plot has long been under wraps, a more recent synopsis was shared, detailing: “A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and artfully depraved new film from writer and director Ari Aster. ”
Director: Ari Aster
Writer: Ari Aster
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Amy Ryan
Along with Phoenix, they also star Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, and Parker Posey.
Originally titled "Disappointment Blvd.", the full-length feature is scheduled to open on April 21, 2023 in theaters. “Midsommar” director Aster previously said his next film will be a four-hour “nightmare comedy” when “Disappointment” was officially announced in February 2021. Meanwhile, Aster directed a 2011 short film also titled "Beau." In that short film, a neurotic middle-aged man's trip to visit his mother is interrupted when his door keys are mysteriously taken from him. Subsequently, he is haunted by an increasingly sinister chain of disturbing events.
In addition to Phoenix, confirmed cast members for the film include Nathan Lane, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, Kylie Rogers, Parker Posey, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hayley Squires, Michael Gandolfini, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Richard Kind.
Phoenix arrives in Aster's new film after his best actor win for playing Arthur Fleck in Todd Phillips' 2019 DC Comics film "Joker," as well as starring in Mike Mills' 2019 festival darling "C' mon, C'mon" as a radio journalist whose energetic young nephew gives him a new perspective on life. He will reprise Arthur Fleck opposite Lady Gaga in "Joker: Folie à Deux," which is billed as a musical.
"Beau Is Afraid," previously titled "Disappointment Blvd," is Aster's third collaborative effort with A24, following their hit horror hits "Hereditary" and "Midsommar," which were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In the former, which was also Aster's feature directorial debut, he directed a cast that included Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro and Gabriel Byrne as a family who are seemingly haunted by a mysterious presence after their grandmother dies. secret. Starring Florence Pugh, “Midsommar” follows a couple who travel to Sweden for a flower-filled summer festival that turns out to be much darker than it seems.
Aster wrote the script for "Beau Is Afraid" as well as producing alongside Lars Knudsen. The film will be released on April 21.
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