Crimes of the Future finally has a UK release date
It has been a long and painful summer for UK fans of David Cronenberg.
The Canadian director’s latest film Crimes of the Future — a return to his body-horror routes — debuted at Cannes in May and was released across the US just weeks later.
But it has languished without a UK distributor for much of the summer, even as various scenes and lines were widely shared on Film Twitter.
Crimes of the Future (not a remake of Cronenberg’s earlier film with the same title) stars Viggo Mortenson, Lea Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.
The trio live in the near future where computers can directly interface with and control bodily functions. Also people no longer suffer pain or infectious diseases meaning surgery can be performed on the fully conscious and aware…
Here’s the trailer:
UK film fans will have to wait no more (well, a couple more months actually) — but at least they can put a date in the diary: September 9.
Vertigo Releasing have picked up the UK distribution rights.
Vertigo’s Edward Caffrey and Claire Taylor of Rocket Science negotiated the deals, reports Variety.
Caffrey said: “It’s an honour to be working with David Cronenberg whose films are always an event, which is what we need more of in the independent marketplace right now.”
Following the premiere at Cannes, Deadline critic Todd McCarthy wrote: “serious, elegant and provocative enough to cut it as an art film in the Cannes competition while also delivering the gross goods of body parts and exploitation film provocations”.
Sign me up. September 9.
