Apparently, Bill Hader is sitting on an “incredibly personal” script that he’s fighting to get made.
In a conversation on “The A24 Podcast,” Hader spoke with “Eddington” filmmaker Ari Aster, who loved a script he read from the “Barry” creator and star. While neither Hader nor Aster shared what the script was about, Aster shared that upon reading it, he understood that Hader wrote from a similar place to him.
“When we became friends, you sent me a script for a feature you haven’t made yet,” Aster said. “I won’t talk about it except to say it’s incredibly personal and has a lot of stuff from your life. I thought it was so real and beautifully observed. It’s a film that was so vivid on the page that I feel like I’ve seen it before.”
It doesn’t exist yet, but I really, really want it. I know, when it comes to this project, that you operate in a similar way. You mentioned Chekhov, and it really brought Chekhov to mind in its absence, its lack of sentimentality.
Hader laughed and admitted that might be the problem.
“That’s why it’s been so hard to do,” he joked.
Watch the full A24 podcast interview below:
Aster’s latest film is a bit of a departure for the frequent horror director. It’s set in a modern Western at the height of the COVID pandemic. This choice makes the film feel even more timely than most new Westerns labeled “modern.”
“It’s a movie where every character is living in a different movie. They’re living in different realities,” Aster told TheWrap. “The movie is about what happens when a bunch of people who live in different versions of reality, who distrust each other’s versions of reality, start to collide with each other.”
“Eddington” marks Aster’s fourth feature-length directorial effort for A24. Perhaps this podcast episode will put Hader’s next passion project on the indie distributor’s radar for the better.
Watch the full conversation between Aster and Hader above.
