The latest film from the director of the ‘Midsommar’ and ‘Hereditary’ movies has a new poster and title. Ari Aster’s latest work, ‘Beau is Afraid‘, stars Joaquin Phoenix in the title role. A24 shared the bewildering first look at the film via Twitterannouncing the name of the actor with a child in his place.
A pachydermic duration
The film, which was originally titled ‘Disappointment Blvd.,’ is an ambitious project for Aster, which he has been working on for a long time and is currently scheduled to be released in theaters sometime in 2023. The poster shows an extremely bizarre depiction of what Phoenix appears to be like as a child, or at least a child version of his character. dressed in silk pajamas embroidered with the name Beau, you can see it complete below.
Aster had previously said that the next project he was working on would be a four-hour long ‘nightmare comedy’ when it was officially announced in November 2020. Plot details have yet to be revealed, but at the time, the film was described as
“an intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time in an alternate present.”
The director, in an interview with IndieWire, had assured that his next film definitely not a horror movie.
“It might take me a few movies before I go back to horror. But I love horror and I’m sure I’ll be back. Head trauma will ALWAYS have a place in my movies.
The cast of ‘Beau is Afraid’ also includes Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, and Parker Posey. Henderson confirmed that production on the film wrapped in October 2021, saying at the time:
“Joaquin and Ari were really nice and they worked together throughout the movie. I got there pretty close to the end of filming and that’s why they had been working for a while. And the way they worked together it was like they were really old friends. It seemed like they could get mad and make up in a matter of seconds. But work was always better for that.”