Ari Aster Says He ‘Wrote a Prequel’ to ‘Hereditary,’ But it ‘Never Feels Like the Right Time’ to Make it

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Ari Aster said during a Q&A after an Egyptian Theatre screening of “Hereditary” (via Gold Derby) that he wrote a prequel to his 2018 horror hit, but doesn’t have any plans to shoot it.

“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster said on Sunday night. “It never feels like the right time. It’s a prequel, not a sequel, so I don’t know where this goes.”

“Hereditary” was Aster’s feature directorial debut, and it put him on the map as a must-watch filmmaker in the horror genre. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro and Gabriel Byrne, “Hereditary” follows the Graham family, whose unassuming life begins to violently unravel after the death of the reclusive grandmother.

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