Crimes of the Future, the new body horror film from legendary writer/director David Cronenberg, will be having its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival later this month – and Cronenberg has said he expects some of the more sensitive audience members to walk out within the first five minutes. While we anxiously wait to hear the reactions to the Cannes screening, a poster for Crimes of the Future has been unveiled and can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Distributor NEON will be releasing Crimes of the Future in New York and Los Angeles on June 3rd before giving it a wide release on June 10th.
The film stars Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman, Tanaya Beatty, Nadia Litz, Yorgos Karamichos, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Welket Bungue, Don McKellar, Lihi Kornowski, and Viggo Mortensen, who previously starred in the Cronenberg films A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, and A Dangerous Method. Scripted by Cronenberg, this one tells the following story:
As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.
Mortensen previously said this “strange film noir story” was something Cronenberg originally wrote a long time ago, but recently pulled off the shelf and “refined”. Crimes of the Future marks the first time Cronenberg has directed one of his own original screenplays since eXistenz in 1999.
The ratings board recently confirmed that they have given the film an R rating for “strong disturbing violent content and grisly images, graphic nudity and some language“.
Here’s the poster, let us know what you think of it by leaving a comment below: