Lea Seydoux to hitch solid of David Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ | Information

Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg revealed extra solid and shoot particulars about his subsequent function, The Shrouds, throughout a press convention at San Sebastian Worldwide Movie Competition, the place he has been given the pageant’s honorary Donostia Award.

French star Lea Seydoux is becoming a member of the solid, alongside the beforehand introduced French actor Vincent Cassel, though Cronenberg insisted: “It’s not a French movie.” Seydoux additionally stars in Cronenberg’s newest physique horror function, Cannes premiere Crimes Of The Future, which is screening at San Sebastian.

“It’s a really private venture for me,” mentioned Cronenberg of The Shrouds. “Individuals who know me will know what elements of it are autobiographical.”

The function is about to shoot in spring 2023 in Cronenberg’s hometown of Toronto.

As beforehand introduced, Cassel, who labored with Cronenberg on Jap Guarantees and Harmful Technique, will play a businessman who builds a tool to attach with the useless inside a burial shroud. FilmNation and CAA Media Finance deal with gross sales, whereas SBS Productions and Prospero Footage produce.

Future ambitions 

Cronenberg admitted he virtually gave up making movies eight years in the past. “I believed I used to be completed,” he mentioned. Nonetheless, he confirmed: “I hope to commit extra crimes sooner or later, by making extra movies.”

He’s all for additional pursuing grassroots approaches to filmmaking. “I’ve at all times been all for entry to know-how. Now you can make fairly film together with your cellphone – if it’s cellphone,” he mentioned. “There have been some moments in Crimes Of The Future that have been shot with an iPhone.”

The filmmaker described himself as “the junior scientist” with a continued want to discover “our bodies modifying beneath know-how”.

And whereas his work has been censored previously, Cronenberg maintained: ”The aim of my filmmaking is to not shock.”