'The Shrouds' Pulls The Veil Off Its Cast Ahead of Filming

The Cannes Film Festival is known for its competition films, many of which go on to be award winners. Fewer know about the Cannes Market, the side hustle that occurs during the festival, as competitors, directors, and production teams bring their projects in hopes of finding a bidder to help finance and, in these times, stream their work. Canadian writer and filmmaker David Cronenberg, famous for films like Scanners, Videodrome, and Naked Lunch, brought Crimes of the Future to Cannes last year, where it got picked up by Neon. He also was already advertising his next project, The Shrouds, which had French legend Vincent Cassel (Liasion) attached.

At the time, filming was set for March 2023, but that has since been pushed back, with casting announcements first arriving in September 2022. At the time, Cronenberg declared French actor Léa Seydoux (No Time to Die) would be joining Cassel, but "Despite that, it’s not a French film,” he said in an interview with Deadline during the run-up to awards season. “It’s a very personal project for me. People who know me will know parts of it are autobiographical. The idea is to shoot that in the Spring in Toronto.”

Since then, the movie has added a few more faces, and with filming now slated to begin in May 2023, it will start production nearly a year to the day since Cronenberg first announced it.