Despite what some misinformed folk may say *cough* Quentin Tarantino *cough*, Paul Dano is surely one of his generation's great character actors — t
Despite what some misinformed folk may say *cough* Quentin Tarantino *cough*, Paul Dano is surely one of his generation’s great character actors — the kind of guy who can just as easily mix it up as the villain of a major blockbuster (The Batman) as multi-role in a Paul Thomas Anderson epic (There Will Be Blood) or voice an existentialist space spider (Spaceman). Now, per Deadline‘s reporting, Dano is set to flex his horror chops in Smile director Parker Finn’s upcoming remake of cult genre classic Possession.
Dano joins leads Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner In Finn’s movie, a retooling of the delayed Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski‘s classic 1981 chiller. For those unfamiliar with the original film, Żuławski’s West Berlin-set psychological supernatural horror (try saying that twice as quick) stars Sam Neill as a spy who suspects his wife (Isabella Adjani) might be having an affair. Infidelity and marital woe are very soon the least of the couple’s worries however as their impending divorce catalyses a destructive cycle involving murder, doppelgangers, and a full-on nightmare-inducing tentacled alien creature. Qualley and Turner are expected to take on the Adjani and Neill roles in Finn’s film, while Dano’s part in it all is currently being kept under wraps — which means yes, he could be playing the alien! Probably not, admittedly, but possibly… you just never know.
With a novel golden age of horror seemingly upon us courtesy of the likes of Danny and Michael Philippou (Bring Her Back), Nia DaCosta (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple), Kane Parsons (Backrooms), and Curry Barker (Obsession), we’re very intrigued to see if Finn — whose most recent horror joint, Smile 2, caused a real buzz among genre aficionados — can chill and astonish us anew with his vision of Żuławski’s unfettered, uncompromising, incredibly tentacly masterwork. Watch this space!
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