During a particularly powerful scene of The first prophecy Nell Tiger Free She was going through a wide range of demonic convulsions, due to an unwanted pregnancy. Joining this to multiple videos in TikTok celebrating the scene that honored Arkasha Stevenson in his prequel The prophecywe confirmed then that the legacy of The possession was in his best moment, and that no one could forget the image of Isabelle Adjani, in the Berlin subway, shaking to the point of vomiting blood. It was clear that The possession, despite its minimal release in 1981, had become a cult classic. And Hollywood tends to like cult classics.
So, according to Hollywood Reporterhas just been launched remake of The possession of Andrzej Zulawski. The linked director and screenwriter is Parker Finnwho will rise to fame in 2022 thanks to the success of smile: this little horror movie won 217 million dollars after the studio had originally planned for a release in streaming, and thanks to a clever promotional campaign. It seems that Finn will premiere this year Smile 2 (dated for October 18), and in the meantime he has already decided to take charge of a new version of The possession. accompanies him Roy Leethe producer of Barbarian.
And also Robert Pattinsonwhich promotes the project through its label Icki Eneo Arla without having yet confirmed his participation as the protagonist. He remake has already aroused the interest of studies such as A24, Netflix, Paramount, Sony either Warner Bros., All of them involved in a bidding war that will become clearer in the coming days. There is a shared interest in returning to Zulawski’s film, even though it has never been a work extremely well known to the public, and in reality it is not so much a horror film as a psychodrama focused on the painful divorce of a couple.
Zulawski, who died in 2016, actually based the film on his own experience with divorce, recruiting Adjani and Sam Neill (the same year that, curiously, he starred in the third installment of The prophecy) as well as Carlo RambaldiOscar-winning VFX designer for Alien, to design a certain monstrous creature. The shoot was pretty hellish, with Neill remembering it as a harrowing experience and Adjani complaining of mistreatment on set. He remake comes to respond to a climate where The possessionfrom several fronts, is more celebrated than ever.
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