As usual, we’re ahead of the news cycle.
A week after reporting that David Cronenberg’s next movie will be “Shrouds,” the trades have joined the party and made it “official.
“Cronenberg’s film will star Vincent Cassel as Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial – cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time. Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalized and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drive him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings.”
One thing the trades don’t seem to be mentioning this morning is that “Shrouds” is from Cronenberg’s aborted Netflix project we had previously spoken of. Supposedly, the streaming giant got cold feet after reading the second episode.