While Ari Aster’s breakthrough film Hereditary didn’t do much for me, it’s been impossible to shake his more-ambitious followup, Midsommar. After that, I’m pretty much down to see whatever he’s got planned, which is good because his next film is being described as a four-hour-long “nightmare comedy.” Alrighty then, sign me up.
Aster had a chat with students at UC Santa Barbara, which is where he started talking about his next movie. The untitled film he says would be a “nightmare comedy”, and then he added “All I know is that it’s gonna be four hours long….”
Four hours is a bit stiff so I hope that changes along the way. Then again, Midsommar clocked in at 148 minutes, with the director’s cut at 171 minutes, so perhaps Aster is just looking to top himself this time. The lengthier cut of Midsommar was far superior to the theatrical, so he might have cause to go long.
