‘I don’t know why it all fell apart’: Cronenberg’s best film won’t get a sequel

In 2007, David Cronenberg released his dark thriller The Promises of the Shadow, which was rated as the best film director by Internet users of AlloCiné (4/5).

The feature film of Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel and Naomi Watts plunged us into the heart of the Russian mafia. Trying to translate the diary of a young dead mother, a midwife finds herself in the hands of a fearsome Russian gang leader. He was assisted by a driver and a commander from an all-powerful Eastern crime family.

Two years after the release of that film, which earned Viggo Mortensen an Oscar nomination, David Cronenberg was considering a sequel with Vincent Cassel and Mortensen. But in 2012, the Canadian director revealed that he was no longer attached to the project.

Five years later, the follow-up project returns to the front stage with a synopsis and a title. body cross To pick up where Shadow Promises left off: Cyril (Cassel) thinks he’s inherited the throne from his father and is the new Russian mob boss in London. But the latter has no doubt that Nikolai is actually a double agent working for the Russian special services.

Today, in full promotion of the Apple + series, Liaison, Vincent Cassel told the UK site independent that the sequel to Shadow Promises was abandoned.

He states:

It had an excellent script. We were ready to do it and I don’t know why it all fell apart. Now I don’t think it will happen again.

Nevertheless, Vincent Cassel will soon find David Cronenberg, because after the promises of the shadow and the dangerous method, the director will cast the French actor in the thriller The Shrouds. Cassel will play a businessman who investigates the reasons why several graves, including his wife’s, have been vandalized.