{"id":693114,"date":"2026-06-09T08:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:02:09","slug":"ari-aster-wrote-a-hereditary-prequel-but-has-no-plans-to-develop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693114\/","title":{"rendered":"Ari Aster Wrote A ‘Hereditary’ Prequel But Has No Plans To Develop It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDespite the resounding financial and critical success of Ari Aster<\/a>\u2018s debut feature Hereditary<\/a>, the horror auteur has no immediate plans for a followup.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmid the American Cinematheque\u2019s annual Bleak Week \u2014 which featured a lineup of his fare, including Midsommar: Director\u2019s Cut,\u00a0Beau Is Afraid and\u00a0Eddington \u2014 the filmmaker spoke at a Q&A yesterday, revealing he has a script set in that universe, but no immediate plans to develop it further.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wrote a prequel to this,\u201d Aster said, per Gold Derby<\/a>. \u201cIt never feels like the right time. It\u2019s a prequel, not a sequel, so I don\u2019t know where this goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tReleased in 2018, the occult film put Aster on the map and broke records for A24 at the time<\/a>, having now amassed a worldwide box office gross of over $90 million. The supernatural psychological horror, written and helmed by Aster, follows a family rocked by grief, who begins to experience sinister and inexplicable occurrences. It stars Toni Collette,\u00a0Alex Wolff,\u00a0Milly Shapiro,\u00a0Ann Dowd and\u00a0Gabriel Byrne.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough Aster is leaving Graham family alone for now, the multihyphenate is currently working on another film, which will be his latest after 2025\u2019s satirical neo-noir Eddington. <\/p>\n

\n\tLast month, sources told Deadline<\/a> that Aster is directing the pic\u00a0Scapegoat<\/a>\u00a0from a script he penned, with\u00a0Scarlett Johansson<\/a>\u00a0set to star. Insiders added that Aster will reunite with A24<\/a>, which has released his past four films, as the distributor. As per usual, plot details are being kept under wraps.<\/p>\n

\n\tOutside of directing, Square Peg, founded by\u00a0Lars Knudsen<\/a>\u00a0and Aster, has set the return of its filmmaker mentorship initiative<\/a>,\u00a0Square Peg Social<\/a>. The second edition will take place in Austin from Sept. 17-21, with submissions now open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the resounding financial and critical success of Ari Aster\u2018s debut feature Hereditary, the horror auteur has no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[17979,17250,88,78391,206],"class_list":["post-693114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a24","tag-ari-aster","tag-entertainment","tag-hereditary","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}