Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Trailer: Western Meets 2020 Chaos

The initial teaser for “Eddington” provides a turbulent glimpse into Ari Aster’s upcoming A24 Western production before its release next month. The story revolves around the tension between small-town sheriff Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) and local mayor Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal) in the imaginary town of Eddington, New Mexico. However, the first glimpses suggest that pressures from external elements will escalate their personal and political disagreement even further. These factors include real-world problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The phrase used in the social media trailer was “Hindsight is 2020,” which is a reference to the challenging year marked by the global emergence of COVID-19 and widespread protests against racial injustice and police brutality. In the beginning of the trailer, a voice says, “They keep looking at that lab in China. If you look back to that lab in Wuhan, it was established in 1956, the same year Tom Hanks was born – the first famous person diagnosed with the virus.

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2025-04-14 18:32