A24 has launched a brand new behind-the-scenes featurette for Beau Is Afraid, the highly-anticipated new film from horror darling Ari Aster. Beau Is Afraid guarantees to steer audiences right into a psychedelic journey from beginning to dying, with Joaquin Phoenix taking part in different-aged variations of the primary character.
In the brand new featurette, Aster says, “I’ve been thinking about this movie for, like, ten years. There’s a part of me that can’t believe we’re making this film.” While we nonetheless don’t know a lot about Beau Is Afraid plot, Aster launched a brief movie referred to as Beau in 2011, a few man who’s too afraid to depart his residence and who retains fixed telephonic contact together with his mom. Beau Is Afraid appears to be someway linked to this early quick movie, because the plot revolves round Phoenix’s character attempting to succeed in his mother’s home and experiencing all types of wacky stuff alongside the best way. As Aster places it, “It’s like a Jewish Lord of the Rings, but he’s just going to his mom’s house.”
While Aster is especially identified for horror gems Midsommar and Hereditary, the director used the weird to make a number of comedic shorts earlier than his function directorial debut. As such, we don’t know precisely what to anticipate from Beau Is Afraid. Aster guarantees the film is “Epic. Jumbo. Every detail has a detail inside of it.” The filmmaker additionally reveals he wished “to make a film where you feel you’ve been through a life, or even through a person.” However, we are able to’t say for certain what new nightmares is perhaps ready for us as soon as Beau Is Afraid hits theaters.
The new featurette additionally affords some new footage from Beau Is Afraid, which can apparently play with totally different genres and languages to inform its bizarre story. For occasion, in a single second, Phoenix is on the stage of a play, whereas within the subsequent one, he’s being hit by an animated sea wave. Whatever Aster has in retailer for us, we’re offered.
Who Is Involved with Beau Is Afraid?
Beau Is Afraid star-studded solid consists of Broadway legends Nathan Lane (Only Murders within the Building) and Pattie LuPone (American Horror Story), Amy Ryan (The Office), Kylie Rogers (Home Before Dark), Parker Posey (Lost in Space), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Dune), Denis Ménochet (The French Dispatch), Hayley Squires (In the Earth), Michael Gandolfini (The Many Saints of Newark), and Zoe Lister-Jones (director of The Craft: Legacy).
Beau Is Afraid involves theaters on April 21, 2023. Check out the featurette and the film’s synopsis under:
A paranoid man embarks on an epic odyssey to get house to his mom on this daring and ingeniously wicked new movie from author/director Ari Aster.