Director David Cronenberg says his latest film “Crimes of the Future” does not have a director’s cut.
In an interview with IGN, David Cronenberg gave viewers a deeper understanding of the production process, saying that he only cut two of the scenes from the original plan simply because they repeated information that viewers already knew.
“There will be no director’s cut . Because for me, every cut is a director’s cut, and there is no other version.”
The 79-year-old filmmaker returns to the body horror genre with “Crimes of the Future” – a sci-fi horror story that explores body modification as a performance art.
While some directors may be forced to cut certain scenes that are too gory, Cronenberg did not avoid such expressions.
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“I wasn’t thinking about censorship or anything like that.” He said, “Every country has its own weird censorship. If you try to protect yourself from that, you’re paralyzing yourself. So I don’t think about it all. I just decide what the film needs.”
“Crimes of the Future” depicts scenes of extreme body modification as protagonist Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) explores what such transformations mean for humanity.
“Some film movies require extreme violence,” says David Cronenberg, “and some movies have intense storylines, but doing it in an extreme, gory way would destroy the main thread of the movie, would have a different tone than the rest of the movie, and would turn people away. Every movie has its own requirements, and that’s all I was completely focused on in this movie. For me, that’s the normal way.”
David Cronenberg was able to make “Crimes of the Future” almost the way he wanted, although he did cut two scenes for more modest reasons than you might think.
“I cut two scenes that weren’t as long,” David Cronenberg explains, “because it’s like your second draft. I’ve never done a second draft before. So I shot everything I had written and realized that these two scenes were repeating information from other scenes. Suddenly I thought it was redundant. Exactly, for no other reason, so I cut those two scenes.”
That meant there was little material available for an extended cut, and the only version viewers will see is the version that will be released. “I didn’t want to put those (shots) back in because …… I did the right thing by throwing them out.”
“Crimes of the Future” stars Viggo Mortensen in the title role and Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart and Scott Speedman.
The film premieres at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2022, and opens in Northern America on June 3.
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