Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler are bringing movie audiences back to the spring of 2020 in their new thriller.
On Monday, April 14, A24 debuted the first teaser trailer for director Ari Aster’s (Hereditary, Midsommar) new movie Eddington.
A synopsis notes that it takes place in May 2020, when “a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Phoenix, 50) and mayor (Pascal, 50) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.”
The trailer opens with footage of Phoenix, Butler, Pascal and Stone’s characters speaking — along with other footage that implies Phoenix’s sheriff has assaulted protestors in his town — before it reveals Phoenix’s character “doomscrolling” on his phone before bed.
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Eddington is Aster and Phoenix’s second film together. They collaborated on 2023’s Beau Is Afraid. Phoenix recently starred in 2024’s Joker: Folie à Deux. Stone, meanwhile, has branched out in recent years with movies like Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness, as well as the 2023 Showtime drama The Curse.
Butler, who most recently appeared in 2024’s The Bikriders and Dune: Part Two, described filming Eddington as “a wild adventure that I got to go on,” while speaking with The Hollywood Reporter in June 2024.
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“I got to play a character who’s very different from anything that I’ve done. Ari and I have been friends for a little bit, and it was great to see him on set,” Butler said at that time. “He is such an incredible filmmaker, and he has such confidence and such a sense of humor and wild imagination. I truly loved working with him.”
Eddington will premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in May. The movie is then in theaters July 18.
