Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Eddington , A24 ’s contemporary dark-comedy Western written and directed by Ari Aster .

Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Pedro Pascal star in Eddington , set during the tumultuous summer of May 2020 during the Covid pandemic. The story serves as a microcosm for a nation that lost its collective mind while sifting reality through social media.

The film premiered In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and hit U.S. theaters in July. It has grossed $13.7 million at the global box office.

Set in the small, fictional town of Eddington, NM, the script immediately immerses the audience in the chaos of that summer, examining the breakdown of social

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