Ari Aster mentioned throughout a Q&A after an Egyptian Theatre screening of “Hereditary” (by way of Gold Derby) that he wrote a prequel to his 2018 horror hit, however doesn’t have any plans to shoot it.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster mentioned on Sunday night time. “It never feels like the right time. It’s a prequel, not a sequel, so I don’t know where this goes.”
“Hereditary” was Aster’s characteristic directorial debut, and it put him on the map as a must-watch filmmaker within the horror style. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro and Gabriel Byrne, “Hereditary” follows the Graham household, whose unassuming life begins to violently unravel after the loss of life of the reclusive grandmother.
Since then, Aster directed “Midsommar,” “Beau Is Afraid” and “Eddington,” all launched by means of A24.
Whereas Aster’s motion pictures, together with these of administrators like Jordan Peele and Robert Eggers, are sometimes labeled as “elevated horror,” this can be a moniker Aster rejects. He defined throughout the identical interview, “I hate the term elevated horror, especially because it’s sort of a box that I was put in and horror fans took umbrage.”
Aster later defined that Danny DeVito tried to finance “Hereditary,” however he couldn’t discover the money to take action. The unnamed financier Aster ultimately selected, he defined, put him by means of “one of the darkest times of my life.”
“It was just in the hands of a financier that was, how do we say it? Worse,” Aster defined. “I’m afraid to say the name because he might show up in my life. Really a nightmare who I had signed my life away, I had signed the film away to him. He had me in the palm of his hand. It was one of the darkest times of my life, actually finishing this film and trying to protect it, keep it from just blowing up.”
