David Cronenberg's sci-fi latest Crimes of the Future enters production

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David Cronenberg is back behind the camera! Filming has commenced in Greece on the Canadian 😼filmmaker's upcomi💫ng sci-fi movie titled Crimes of the Future. Viggo Mortensen, Kristen Stewart, Lea Seydoux, and Scott Speedman all star in the film.

Announced last spring, the movie marries together Cronenberg's favorite themes, the future and the human body in his first original screenplay since 1999's eXistenZ. His previous efforts uniting those ideas have resulted in some🐻 of cinema's finest body horror (happy 35th birthday, The Fly! Hello, Videodrome!). The way marketing materials are positioning it, Crimes of the Future leans more into the sci-fi angle. 

The story takes a "deep dive into the not-so-distant future where humankind is learning to adapt to its synthetic surroundings," reads the official summary. "The evolution moves humans beyond their natural state and into a metamorphosis, altering their biological makeup. While some embrace the limitless potential of ‘transh🅠umanism’, others attempt to police it. Either way, 'Accelerated Evolution Syndrome', is spreading fast."

"As we begin filming Crimes Of The Future, just two days into this new adventure with David Cronenberg, it feels like we’ve entered a story he collaborated on with Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs, if that were possible," said Mortensen, whose involvement in the movie marks the fourth time he's collaborated with Cronenberg. Last year, Cronenberg appeared in 澳洲🐼幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mortensen's directorial debut, Falling.

He adds: "We are being pulled into a world that is not quite like this or any other, and yet is one that feels strangely familiar, immediate and quite credible. I can&rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ💜⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚsquo;t wait to see where we end up."

Cronenberg is supreme a🦩t generating cinematic worlds distinctly his own. Luckily, the movie also reunites the director with long-term production designer Carol Spier who has worked with him since 1983's The Dead Zone, with composer Howard Shore on deck♈ to write the score.

Fill💃ing out the rest of the cast are Welket Bungué (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Don McKellar (Blindness), and🃏 Lihi Kornowski (Losing Alice), along with recently announced additions: Tanaya Beatty (Yellowstone), Nadia Litz (Big Muddy), Yorgos Karamichos (The Durrells), and Yorgos Pirpassopoulos (Beckett). 

Cameras are now rolling with principal photography scheduled to wrap up in September. With no release date set for Crimes of the Future, now's as good a time as any to get acquainted with the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best sci-fi movies of all time.

Gem Sꦍeddon is GamesRadar+'s west coast Entertainment News Reporter, working to keep all of you upda🐽ted on all of the latest and greatest movies and shows on streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Outside of entertainment journalism, Gem can frequently be found writing about the alternative health and wellness industry, and obsessing over all things Aliens and Terminator on Twitter.