The Cannes Film Festival is home to the return of acclaimed filmmaker David Cronenberg with his film Crimes of the Future. After a years-long hiatus, the Videodrome director’s return could have been sooner than we expected.
In an interview with Variety, Cronenberg discusses the grueling financing process the film had and the common myths about working with big streaming giants like Amazon or Netflix:
“I’m pretty sure we did talk to Amazon and Netflix for this, and it was not a project they wanted to do,” he said. “And I think my feeling is I really was very interested in the whole Netflix streaming phenomenon, definitely. But I think that they’re still very conservative. I mean, I think they’re still like a Hollywood studio. I thought maybe they would be different.”
Cronenberg also points out that despite streaming giants being praised for distributing a range of diverse stories, they still suffer from an air of generics:
“The difference is that Netflix can show very interesting streaming series from Korea, from Finland, and they say it’s a Netflix original, but it isn’t really — it’s something they have acquired. But I think when it comes to their actual production that they do themselves, they’re very conservative. I think they think in mainstream terms, that’s my experience with them anyway.”
In the past, Cronenberg worked on a series for Netflix that never got made, and is rumored to be adapting his book Consumed for the screen.
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