Just a week after Paul Dano joined the cast of Parker Finn’s upcoming Possession remake, the reimagining of Andrzej Żuławski’s psychological horror film has added another star. Deadline reports that Babylon star Diego Calva is joining the film, despite a fair amount of backlash about the remake existing at all.
The remake is directed by the Smile helmer from a script he penned, with Callum Turner and Margaret Qualley also set to star. While no synopsis has been released for this version of the film, we imagine it’ll be fairly similar to the 1981 original, about a woman whose behavior turns increasingly troubling after asking her husband for a divorce. (Wonder how that’ll go over after The Substance star’s very public separation from her partner Jack Antonoff.)
The film is Calva’s third horror film to date, after starring in Bird Box Barcelona for Netflix, and also featuring in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell, which opens this month. The Possession remake is produced by Finn and Jonathan Fass through their Bad Feeling banner, alongside Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, Marc Bienstock, and wildly enough, Robert Pattinson.
But, while the cast list is shaping up to be mighty impressive, we can’t help but wonder — much like fellow Fango writer Amber T mused — why this remake exists in the first place. In a world where Disney is constantly churning out shot for shot remakes of their animated films that lose all their original heart, it seems especially egregious to take a film so rooted in its director’s own personal life and give it a new coat of paint, obscuring its original themes for the sake of a nostalgia cash grab.
No release date has been set for the Possession remake. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
