Cronenberg’s next job will be ‘The Shrouds’, starring Vincent Cassell, after Netflix’s rejection of ‘Consumed’ and ‘Crimes of the Future’
David Cronenberg is about to premiere in Cannes his new film ‘Crimes of the Future‘, which promises to be a new festival of “The new meat” and a tribute to body horror cinemabut already has new projects on the horizon after 8 years of drought.
The one that seems closest is the movie ‘The Shrouds’, which will star Vincent Cassell. Cronenberg will continue to navigate the fantasy world in a story that “will focus on Karsh (Vincent Cassel), an innovative businessman and a grieving widower, who build a device to connect with the dead inside a shroud”.
“Karsh’s revolutionary business is about to break into the international mainstream when several graves in the cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including his wife’s. As he struggles to unravel the motive for the attack, the mystery of who caused this chaos and why, Karsh will reevaluate his business, his marriage and his faithfulness to the memory of his late wife, as well as being propelled to new beginnings.”, reads the official synopsis.
Cronenberg writes and directsalthough initially his next job was going to be very different. The Canadian filmmaker has been trying for several years to adapt his novel ‘Consumed’, published in 2014. In 2019, Netflix was interested in the project, but after treating the first two episodes, the platform was disassociated from the series much to the director’s disappointment.
“It turns out that it is not so easy to get a series with Netflix. In fact, it seems like it might be easier to make an independent movie if it deals with certain themes. For example, a movie that isn’t the kind of conservative movie that Netflix would like.”
“My feeling is that he was really very into the whole Netflix streaming phenomenon, definitely. But I think they are still very conservative. I mean, I think they’re still like a Hollywood studio. I thought maybe they would be different.added Cronenberg, who also stated that Netflix (and Amazon) refused to produce his movie ‘Crimes of the Future’.
The novel’s plot, true to the director’s style, reads as follows: “Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social media age. Naomi is drawn to the headlines surrounding a famous couple, Célestine and Aristide, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Célestine has been found dead and Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect that he killed her and consumed parts of her body. However, Naomi sets out to find him, and as she digs deeper into the couple’s lives, she finds that the news can only scratch the surface of the disturbing acts they performed together. Meanwhile, the journalist Nathan is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnár, wanted by Interpol for organ trafficking.. After sleeping with one of Molnár’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe and travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Nathan learns that Dr. Barry Roiphe is now studying his own adult daughter, whose strange behavior masks a devastating secret.”
Cronenberg now plans to make it into a movie, though he hasn’t started adapting the script yet.
“I don’t have a script for ‘Consumed’ yet, but I’ll write it”. Cronenberg told Variety. “But for the moment, the other project, which is called ‘The Shrouds’, would come first.”
‘The Shrouds’ will take advantage of the Cannes market to obtain financing, and filming is scheduled to begin in March 2023.
Source: Fotogramas
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