Inside the long, bloody journey to get Possessor from Brandon Cronenberg’s brain to the screen

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From the film’s tremendous, and tremendously gross, in-camera effects to the sharp casting that so bedevilled the film from the get-go, Possessor is the product of a singularly sick vision

, Netflix’sand too many other productions to list here, came aboard in September that year, right after meeting Cronenberg at that fall’s Toronto International Film Festival. Shooting was scheduled for early the next year. Easy, right?

Well: During pre-production in late 2017, the plug was pulled as the producers couldn’t reconcile the cast with the “desires and ambitions” of their international sales agent. After replacing the sales agent, and sticking with Abbott and Riseborough, shooting was rescheduled for the fall of 2018. But then Riseborough smashed both her knees on the Morocco set of Amazon Prime Video’s drug-trafficking series, and the plug was pulled again.

“I’ve been dealing with those comparisons even before I started making movies, when I was trying to be a visual artist and people were comparing my drawings to his films,” says the younger Cronenberg on critics', and audiences', tendency to tie his work with that of his father David’s. “It’s something that’s inescapable, and honestly I don’t really pay too much attention to it. I’m making films that are honest to my own creative impulses and interests.

If those interests just happen to involve exploding heads and humanity’s perverse relationship with technology – subjects explored by David in everything from

 

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