Cronenberg has an “idea” to reunite the protagonists of ‘Twilight’
David Cronenberg just released’Crimes of the Future‘ at Cannes, starring Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux and Kristen Stewartand working with Stewart marks Cronenberg’s second time directing a leading man in the series.Twilight‘, after matching Robert Pattinson in the magnificent ‘Cosmopolis’.
During one of the (we suppose) numerous interviews that the Canadian filmmaker gave during the promotion of his new work in Cannes, Jordan Ruimy from World of Reel asked him about the chance to reunite the two teen idols in a new film, and surprisingly the director got into the rag and admitted that He has already thought of several ideas.
“It was Robert who introduced me to Kristen. They have developed their career wonderfully, separately, as actors. They make arthouse movies and they do it successfully. Kristen and I had a great time and Rob and I had a great time. For me if, I can definitely think of a movie or idea, it would be great to have them both together.”
“I don’t want to get into that because it wouldn’t be my next movie, though. it could be problematic as fans could expect a certain type of relationship and that would get in the way of creating new characters for them. So I have a weird feeling that it might be troublesome, so it’s just an idea to develop for now.”
‘Crimes of the Future’ was Cronenberg’s first feature film after 8 years of droughtand after the premiere of this one already has two new projects in mind, so this supposed film with Pattinson and Stewart will have to wait.
While we wait for a Spanish distributor to win the bidding war which is being produced to premiere the new work by the Canadian director in Spain, Cronenberg announced that his next film will be titled ‘The Shrouds‘.
Starring Vincent CasselCronenberg 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 uncover 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 directs, although initially his next job was going to be very different. The Canadian filmmaker has been trying to adapt his novel for several years.consumed‘, published in 2014. In 2019, Netflix became 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 is not the kind of conservative movie that Netflix would like.”
Cronenberg now plans to make it into a moviealthough he has not yet begun to adapt the script.
“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.”
Source: Fotogramas
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