A week and a half ago, our own Chris Bumbray got to see a sneak preview of a new trailer for legendary writer/director David Cronenberg’s return to body horror, Crimes of the Future. That redband trailer has now arrived online, and you can check it out in the embed above. If you want to know how gross the body modifications in the film are going to get, this new trailer gives some idea. 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.
A couple days ago, the ratings board confirmed that they have given the film an R rating for “strong disturbing violent content and grisly images, graphic nudity and some language“.
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