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Marilyn Manson’s ‘Phantasmagoria’ Shut Down Indefinitely
Sucks when fan backlash ruins a potential project. Back in April we posted the sales trailer for Marilyn Manson’s Phantasmagoria: The Visions Of Lewis Carroll, a long-gestured project that was to star Lily Cole, Tilda Swinton, Evan Rachel Wood and himself as a haunted writer in an isolated castle is tormented by sleepless nights and visions of a girl named Alice. According to sources close to NME, the clip “caused such a backlash that a decision was made to close down the project. It’s unlikely it will ever see the light of day.” Well, now that sucks.
Filming is underway in New Jersey on Parker Finn’s remake of Andrzej Żuławski’s 1981 psychological horror movie Possession, and Deadline reports that three new faces have joined the cast.
Madeline Brewer (Cam, “You”), Emory Cohen (Sweetheart, Lords of Chaos), and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (“Grotesquerie“) have joined previously announced cast members Margaret Qualley, Callum Turner, Diego Calva, and Paul Dano.
Parker Finn is writing, directing and producing the new take on Possession.
Just how closely Finn’s update will follow the 1981 cult classic remains to be seen, but the original film starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as married couple Anna and Mark in Cold War-era West Berlin whose relationship spirals into a supernatural nightmare. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
Isabelle Adjani’s unforgettable performance, particularly the infamous subway sequence that remains one of horror’s most iconic scenes, helped catapult the 1981 film into cult masterpiece status and remains influential, even as recent as Nell Tiger Free’s turn in The First Omen.
Adjani previously gave the remake, and Qualley’s casting in particular, her blessing.
Producers include Jonathan Fass, Roy Lee, Andrew Childs, and Robert Pattinson. Marc Bienstock will executive produce.