With films like ‘Scanners’ or ‘The Fly’ David Cronenberg has little left to prove, but the next ‘Crimes of the Future’ seems to be not a goodbye to cinema. After warning that he will have dropouts at Cannes he doesn’t seem to want to go back on another hiatus and Variety reports that his next film will be called ‘The Shrouds’ and it will reunite him with Vincent Cassel.
double return
The French actor has starred in Cronenberg’s previous films such as ‘Eastern Promises’ (2007) and ‘A Dangerous Method’ (2011) and will re-team with the filmmaker as the lead playing a character named Karsh, described as “an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a device to connect with the dead within a shroudCronenberg will write and direct the film, and filming will start in March 2023.
The rest of the cast has not been announced, but there is a small summary of what it will deal with:
“Karsh’s revolutionary business is about to break into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including his wife’s. As he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who This chaos and why will lead Karsh to reassess his business, marriage and fidelity to the memory of his late wife, as well as push him to new beginnings.”
Producer Saïd Ben Saïd of SBS Productions issued an additional statement:
“We are thrilled to embark on a journey into the newer world of David Cronenberg’s distinctive imagination. His ability to write clever and offbeat scripts and then translate them into unique experiences on screen makes him a unique voice on film.”