“Crimes of the Future” is a new film by David Cronenberg and a return to form for the auteur. The film had its world premiere at Cannes 2022.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Crimes of the Future is a 2022 internationally co-produced body horror film
- It is written and directed by David Cronenberg
- It stars Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart
- The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival
- There it was in competition for the Palme d’Or
- The film received a six-minute standing ovation
- It marks Cronenberg’s return to the science fiction and horror genres for the first time since eXistenZ (1999)
- The film was a thriller set to begin production in early 2003 under the title Painkillers
- The film was expected to explore the world of performance art
- It took place in an anaesthetized society where pain is the new forbidden pleasure, and surgery and self-mutilation, being performed in public and on camera, have come to be regarded as the new sex
- Ralph Fiennes was attached to star as Saul Tenser after Nicolas Cage
- Although he was the first option for the main role, he dropped out
- The was intended to be shot in Toronto, Canada on a budget of $35 million
- ThinkFilm had picked up worldwide rights
- With a scheduled release for late 2006 in North America
- However, the project never came through
- In a mid-2000s interview, director David Cronenberg brushed the project aside
- Stating that it was not happening and that he had lost interest in making it anyway
- In February 2021, during a chat with GQ magazine, Viggo Mortensen revealed that he was working on a project with Cronenberg
- In April, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart were among the cast announced for the film
- Natalie Portman was initially supposed to play Seydoux’s part
- Seydoux was in turn up for Stewart’s role
- Portman dropped out of the film because of conflicting schedules with Thor: Love and Thunder
- In August 2021, Tanaya Beatty, Yorgos Karamihos, Nadia Litz and Yorgos Pirpassopoulos joined the cast of the film
- Principal photography began on August 2, 2021
- It concluded on September 10, 2021, in Athens, Greece
- On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 79% rating
- Based on 100 critics
- With an average rating of 6.3/10
- The site’s consensus reads, “Quintessential if not classic Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future finds the director revisiting familiar themes with typically unsettling flair”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100
- Based on 37 reviews
- Signifying “generally favorable reviews”
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