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

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

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

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

Paul Haggis’ Crash (2004) is a shallow film; its characters nothing more than reductive racial tropes colliding into and screaming epithets at one another. Somehow, the film defied the odds and beat out the heavily favored Brokeback Mountain to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

Ari Aster isn't necessarily anti-superhero movie, but there's a reason the Hereditary and Midsommar director passed on helming this notorious Marvel flick.

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.

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