Viggo Mortensen Teases Disturbing New Horror Movie with David Cronenberg
David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen are a match made in Heaven. From A History of Violence to Eastern Promises (to A Dangerous Method) they rarely disappoint. And today Mortensen teases he’s teaming up with Cronenberg yet again. And this time for a new body-horror fright flick!
Mortensen tells GQ: “We do have something in mind. It’s something he wrote a long time ago, and he never got it made. Now he’s refined it, and he wants to shoot it. Hopefully, it’ll be this summer we’ll be filming. I would say, without giving the story away, he’s going maybe a little bit back to his origins.”
He adds: “Yeah, it’s very interesting. It’s almost like a strange film noir story. It’s disturbing and it’s good, I think. But since his origins, he’s obviously developed in terms of technique and self-assurance as a director.”
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Hell, yeah! I’m especially excited considering Cronenberg claimed he was done with horror movies back in 2018., telling ET: “Probably not. I’ve never really resisted that. I’ve been offered many projects and so on, and they just seemed to be a repetition basically of what I’d done already, so that’s not interesting. I think the reason that I started to evolve away from straight horror was just that, instead of being liberating, which it was in the beginning, and it’s a genre that really is capable of delivering a lot more than just scares if it’s done by really talented people, but I think I found that it was becoming restrictive rather than liberating. So I think in all my films there is still the texture of that underneath everything, but I don’t really see myself going back to that. But you never know, you never know.”
I don’t know about you, but this potential flick just shot to the TOP of my must-see list. So don’t worry, we’ll keep you updated if we hear anything further news.
Stay tuned.
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