Diane Kruger will play three roles in David Cronenberg’s new movie The Shrouds.
Cronenberg has helmed famous films like The Fly, A History of Violence, and, most recently, Crimes of the Future. The 80-year-old director’s next movie is a horror movie named The Shrouds, which stars Vincent Cassel, Guy Pearce, and Diane Kruger. Kruger replaced Léa Seydoux in a lead role in the film.
In a recent interview with So Film (via World of Reel), Kruger revealed that she’s playing three roles in the film. The German actress will portray the wife of Cassel’s character, the sister of the wife, and “an avatar, a sort of personal assistant.”
What is The Shrouds about?
According to Deadline, the film “stars Cassel as 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 vandalized 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, drive him to reevaluate his business, marriage and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, as well as push him to new beginnings.”
