When the trailers for director David Cronenberg‘s new film Crimes of the Future were released online last week, we heard that the film is heading toward a June theatrical release. Now our friends at Bloody Disgusting have been able to confirm that distributor NEON will be releasing the film in New York and Los Angeles on June 3rd before giving it a wide release on June 10th.
Crimes of the Future 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”. This marks the first time Cronenberg has directed one of his own original screenplays since eXistenz in 1999.
Robert Lantos produced Crimes of the Future alongside Panos Papahadzis. Steve Solomos is co-producer. Joe Iacono, Thorsten Schumacher, Peter Touche, Christelle Conan, Aida Tannyan, Victor Loewy, and Victor Hadida served as executive producers. Bonnie Do and Laura Lanktree are associate producers.
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