We have a bunch of recent updates on David Cronenberg’s next movie, The Shrouds: firstly, Diane Kruger has replaced Léa Seydoux (who recently starred in Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future) on the project; Memento’s Guy Pearce has also joined the cast; and filming will begin on May 8th in Toronto. Vincent Cassel, who previously worked with Cronenberg on Eastern Promises and A Dangerous Method, has been aboard the film since it was first announced last year.

French actor and La Haine star Cassel will play Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, who builds a novel device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud. This burial tool installed at his own state-of-the-art – though controversial – cemetery allows him and his clients to watch their specific departed loved one decompose in real time. Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery are vandalised and nearly destroyed, including that of his wife. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings.

Kruger and Pearce’s roles are unknown, and a release date for The Shrouds has yet to be announced.

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