EDDINGTON Trailer Stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Austin Butler And Emma Stone

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Written and directed by Ari Aster and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, with Austin Butler and Emma Stone, here’s a first look at the trailer for EDDINGTON.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

“A lot of these characters are dueling political ideas converging into different, isolated people,” Aster says. “I wanted to make a sort of American genre epic with updated archetypes. But it felt important that the movie be sympathetic to all of these characters and to their fears. These are normal people who are flawed, but who believe they’re standing up for what’s right, and what they’re feeling is not wrong, it’s just that it all comes out in really weird, distorted and frightening ways. There are deep structural inequalities that have always been here and they’re obviously still here. There is a terrible problem out there, and a lot of these right-wing conspiracies borrow from left-wing conspiracies of the 1960s and 70s, and the people who are gripped by them are not wrong and they’re not crazy. They’ve just been driven crazy by this system and the way that they’re haunted by it.”

See EDDINGTON in theaters on July 18.