Know Why Ari Aster Blvd Disappointment Renamed Beau Is Afraid

A new poster has come to light for the upcoming film Beau Is Afraid

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and it seems that it's a child's version of protagonist Joaquin Phoenix.

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The name change may signal the main theme of the movie

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which Deadline speaks to in 2021 when they report that "the plot is described as an intimate

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decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time."

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The film stars Nathan Lane (Only Murders in the Building), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Causeway)

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Patti LuPone (American Horror Story), Amy Ryan (Only Murders in the Building), and Parker Posey (The Staircase)

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Production on Beau Is Afraid wrapped this past October, so we have a bit longer to wait for its release date.

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