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How Cronenberg’s ‘The Shrouds’ Went From Rejected Netflix Series to Cannes Film

After streaming giant passed, director turned his personal grief story into a divisive new movie.

Naser Nahandian by Naser Nahandian
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When David Cronenberg’s deeply personal new film The Shrouds premiered at Cannes this week, it represented a journey from small screen aspirations to big screen persistence. The acclaimed director revealed that his sci-fi thriller exploring grief was originally developed as a 10-episode series pitch for Netflix.

“They liked the script for the first episode but did not want to move forward after the second episode,” Cronenberg said of the streamer’s executives. “They said – and this is a very Hollywood thing to say – ‘It’s not what we fell in love with in the room.'”

Rather than let his passion project die, the iconic filmmaker behind Scanners, Videodrome, and The Fly ended up repackaging the concept as a feature film. “I felt I can’t let this die, let’s see if we can turn it into a movie… It could be a series, but it doesn’t have to be.”

For Cronenberg, transforming The Shrouds was clearly a deeply personal undertaking. The film mirrors his own tragic loss – the death of his wife Carolyn to cancer in 2017. It stars Vincent Cassel as an entrepreneur who creates a device allowing the bereaved to watch their deceased loved ones decompose inside burial shrouds.

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The metaphysical drama costars Diane Kruger as Cassel’s late wife and her sister, played by Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, and Elizabeth Saunders in supporting roles. While dividing critics at its Cannes premiere to both raves and pans, Cronenberg feels some have ignorantly overlooked the conspiracy elements underlying the story’s exploration of grief.

“If you’re an atheist like I am and you don’t believe in an afterlife, then the death of someone is meaningless,” he argued. “One way you can create meaning is to come up with a theory, a conspiracy, that explains why a person died.”

The filmmaker criticized “very stupid journalists who did not see this” purposeful thread as “a problem as a filmmaker.”

Cronenberg’s candid defense captures the fierce conviction driving The Shrouds’ existence – a project steeped in coping with life’s profoundest losses, first imagined for television’s intimate scale before blossoming outward on the big screen.

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While the streamer’s rejection stung, the director channeled that emotion into a conspiratorial exploration of meaning itself. From its bittersweet origins to its polarizing Cannes reception, The Shrouds represents an artist’s refusal to let profound grief be meaningless.

Turned away by Netflix’s confines, Cronenberg’s undying vision has emerged reborn as a big screen reckoning with the philosophical void of death – for better or worse. Sometimes a story simply demands to be unearthed, even if it means digging against convention.

Tags: DAVID CRONENBERGDiane KrugerHorrorLéa SeydouxProspero PicturesSaint Laurent ProductionsSandrine HoltSBS ProductionsSuspenseThe ShroudsVincent Cassel
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