Hereditary prequel? Writer-director Ari Aster wrote a script, but is unsure he'll make it: 'It ne...

Aster broke out of horror with paranoid comedy &34;Beau Is Afraid&34; and social satire &34;Eddington,&34; but could return to the world of &34;Hereditary.&34; Hereditary prequel? Writerdirector Ari Aster wrote a script, but is unsure he'll make it: 'It never feels like the right time' Aster broke out of horror with paranoid comedy &34;Beau Is Afraid&34; and social satire &34;Eddington,&34; but could return to the world of &34;Hereditary.&34; By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.

Aster broke out of horror with paranoid comedy "Beau Is Afraid" and social satire "Eddington," but could return to the world of "Hereditary."

Hereditary prequel? Writer-director Ari Aster wrote a script, but is unsure he'll make it: 'It never feels like the right time'

Aster broke out of horror with paranoid comedy "Beau Is Afraid" and social satire "Eddington," but could return to the world of "Hereditary."

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Toni Collette in 'Hereditary'. Credit: A24

- Ari Aster wrote the script for a prequel to his 2017 debut hit *Hereditary*.

- But the writer-director wouldn't be sure "where this goes," he recently told an audience at a Los Angeles screening of the film.

- "It never feels like the right time," he said.

Heads will roll when *Hereditary** *fans hear this.

Ari Aster, the writer-director behind the 2017 horror sensation that made him an auteur of international renown, "wrote a prequel to this," he revealed at a American Cinematheque screening of the film in Los Angeles on Sunday per Gold Derby.

There's just one problem: He isn't sure if he'd like to make it.

"It never feels like the right time. It's a prequel, not a sequel, so I don't know where this goes," Aster shared.

Ari Aster and Pawel Pogorzelski on the set of 'Hereditary'.

James Minchin/A24

*Hereditary *landed like a bomb on the horror scene when it released in 2017. Starring Toni Collette as the anxious mother of two kids who finds herself flailing when struck by unimaginable tragedy, the sinister tale of cults and covenants launched Aster's career into the stratosphere.

He followed *Hereditary *with another chiller, *Midsommar*, and then branched into queasy, surreal comedy with *Beau Is Afraid *and taut social satire with *Eddington*.

But a *Hereditary *prequel could make the perfect opening to return to horror, given the film's loud and loyal fanbase.

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Aster demonstrated he's still current on the horror scene, shouting out the reigning kings of genre at the box office, 20-year-old Kane Parsons, who directed A24's *Backrooms*, and 26-year-old Curry Barker, who directed Focus Features' *Obsession*.

"This is a really interesting month with Curry and Kane... I hadn't seen Kane's shorts until *Backrooms* came out. He's really interesting. He's 20 years old and what he's been doing on [3D software] Blender, I think he's clearly following a vision. I'm thrilled to see that. That's so exciting," he said.

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But that old term "elevated horror," which Aster was saddled with alongside his contemporaries, like Jordan Peele (*Get Out*) and Robert Eggers (*The Witch*), does not spark joy.

"I hate the term 'elevated horror,' especially because it's sort of a box that I was put in, and horror fans took umbrage," Aster said, adding he was "just trying to make a really good horror movie," and Eggers "was doing the same thing. *The Witch* came before me."

Toni Collette in 'Hereditary'. Reid Chavis/A24

Aster spoke about the film before an audience at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, as part of American Cinematheque's mini Aster retrospective, nestled within the ongoing fifth edition of their annual Bleak Week Global Film Festival.

Comfortable in front of an enthusiastic audience, Aster left his fans with a juicy bit of behind-the-scenes gossip. Discussing *Hereditary*'s precarious financing journey, Aster noted he was "afraid to say the name" of the financier who eventually boarded the project, "because he might show up in my life."

Aster revealed that the man was "Really a nightmare, who I had signed my life away [to]. I had signed the film away to him. He had me in the palm of his hand. It was one of the darkest times of my life actually finishing this film and trying to protect it, keep it from just blowing up."

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