David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds is mostly wrapped up in mystery for now, but according to a new report, the film will be the director’s longest endeavor yet.
According to a recent listing by French distributor Pyramide Films (via World of Reel), The Shrouds will not only release sometime in September, but is also slated to be 119 minutes long. Should this hold true, this would hold the title as longest Cronenberg film, beating out 1988’s Dead Ringers and 1991’s Naked Lunch (116 minutes).
The upcoming horror film is set to star Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger, the latter of which will play three roles in the film. The movie also stars Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Eric Weinthal, and Steve Switzman.
What is The Shrouds about?
“Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud,” the synopsis reads. “Installed at his own controversial state-of-the-art cemetery, the device enables him and his clients to watch their departed loved ones decompose in real time. Karsh’s revolutionary business is on the verge of breaking into the international mainstream when several graves within his cemetery, including that of his wife, are vandalized and nearly destroyed. While he struggles to uncover a clear motive for the attack, the mystery of who wrought this havoc, and why, drives him to re-evaluate his business, marriage, and fidelity to his late wife’s memory, and pushes him to new beginnings.”
Kruger previously confirmed that she’s playing three different characters in The Shrouds. She told Deadline Hollywood in December 2023, “It’s probably David’s most personal film because it deals with the loss of his wife, who passed away from cancer. With David’s very particular twist on how he narrates, you know, story and pain — it’s a movie that deals with loss and grief and being in a couple for so long, being in a relationship for so long, and what true love is. I play the wife, his sister, and an avatar he created in her memory.”
The Shrouds does not yet have an official release date.
