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Watch the final trailer for Ari Aster's 'Eddington' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal

By Sophia Soto | Last updated Jun 28, 2025 10:54 PM ET

A24 has shared a new trailer for Eddington , written and directed by Ari Aster. The film's talented cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, Amélie Hoeferle, Clifton Collins Jr., William Belleau, Austin Butler, and Emma Stone.

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

"Honestly, I loved the script, but the biggest draw for me was Ari," Stone told EXTRA. "I love Ari’s other films. I like him so much as a person and had gotten to know him for years before this, and so when he asked me if I wanted to be a part of it, I just said yes because I really, really wanted to work with Ari."

"It feels like we’re at a moment right now where everything’s kind of collapsing, like this system that has been barely holding for a while is collapsing, and then we’re at the cusp of something new with these massive changes in tech, huge changes in government, and it felt appropriate to make a Western," the director explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "But a Western that is kind of inflected by modern realism, where they’ve got all these people living in this small town; they kind of function as archetypes, but that’s also because they’re aware of those archetypes, and they’re kind of informed by them, but at the same time, they’re all living in the internet. And the movie is about living in the internet and what that means and how a result of that is that they’re all kind of living in different realities, and we’re kind of unreachable to each other."

Eddington will be released in theaters on July 18.

Sophia Soto

Sophia Soto is a writer and interviewer with a passion for all things entertainment. She is a Senior Reporter at The Nerds of Color and contributes to Yardbarker, Screensphere, Den of Geek, What to Watch, Nerdtropolis, and Temple of Geek. You can see her past work on Remezcla, Young Hollywood, Looper, Paste Magazine, Primetimer, Soundsphere, and Starry Constellation Magazine

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