Ari Aster as superhero director? Not in this lifetime. The auteur recently revealed during an appearance on the “Mixed Signals” podcast from Semafor Media (which you can see i

"Eddington" director Ari Aster has revealed that he was asked at one point to direct the Jared Leto-starring "Morbius" for Sony.

The director’s polarizing new film comes after the commercial failure of ‘Beau Is Afraid.’ He’s not not worried.

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, N.M. — Past a petrified mastodon skull and display cases of glittering gypsum and halite, Ari Aster is gesturing to a room where, conjuring a bit of movie magic, he made Joaquin Phoenix fall through a roof, onto the bones of Geronimo.

Ari Aster's COVID-era western stars Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. It releases in theaters July 18

He's collaborated with everyone from David Fincher to the Safdies, but the Iranian-born cinematographer, most recently of "Eddington," wants them all to feel like family.

Eddington' horror filmmaker Ari Aster says he was offered to direct the Spider-Man spin-off 'Morbius,' which was a huge bomb.

Aster sat down with The A.V. Club after a screening of Eddington at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to talk about the terrifying future we’re all barreling towards. Eddington and Beau Is Afraid both seem like films where you woke up in a cold sweat and needed to write down what your brain had conjured up.

Joaquin Phoenix couldn't figure out his Eddington character, Joe Cross, until director Ari Aster did something that inadvertently unlocked the role for him.