[This story contains spoilers for Eddington .]

Ari Aster is a good sport.

The Eddington writer-director didn’t have to entertain The Hollywood Reporter ‘s questions about an embryonic draft of his COVID-19 Western, but he did so anyway, further illustrating how the writing and rewriting process doesn’t truly end until picture is locked. The film always introduced its fictional small town setting of Eddington, New Mexico through the perspective of a troubled local vagrant named Lodge (Clifton Collins Jr.), but according to an earlier script, the sequence originally contained a real-life tech billionaire with a notable history on the big screen.

[This story contains spoilers for Eddington .]

Ari Aster is a good sport.

The Eddington writer-director didn’t have to

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