‘Eddington’ Trailer: Joaquin Phoenix Gets Into Standoff With Pedro Pascal In A24’s Covid-Era Western From Filmmaker Ari Aster

A24 has unveiled the first full-length trailer for Eddington, its latest film from Hereditary helmer Ari Aster, which is slated to hit theaters July 18 after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the genre-bender is set during the Covid-19 pandemic, watching as a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix) and mayor (Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, N.M.

For Aster, Eddington marked a reunion with Phoenix on the heels of his last film, the dark A24 comedy Beau Is Afraid. He directed from his own script, with Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone rounding out the cast.

Eddington drew a nearly seven-minute standing ovation in its launch at Cannes, where Deadline’s Damon Wise praised Aster for being “willing to go there” with his satire of modern-day America and all its challenges — “a slice of history that we have yet to see properly shown on film, even though it happened only five years ago.”

The film is financed and produced by A24. Aster produced alongside Lars Knudsen under their Square Peg Banner. Watch the trailer for Eddington at the link above.