The Venice Film Festival just handed David Cronenberg a lifetime achievement award, and precisely no one thought it was undeserved. The acclaimed director has churned out some of our all time favourite movies over the years, including The Fly, Scanners, The Dead Zone and Videodrome, and up until 2014 he was still consistently delivering some uniquely strange and extremely watchable projects.
The director has also dabbled in TV before, and quite a lot during his early career, but it’s all just been the odd episode here and there since. Now, he’s announced that it’s absolutely the right time for a big fat Cronenbergian debut TV series to come to fruition on the small screen, and to this we say “yes, please.”
During a filmmaker’s panel over the weekend, Cronenberg refused to dish up any details about the planned longform TV series he’s currently gestating, but did back up previous comments he’s made about not giving a single solitary fudge about the death of the classic cinema experience for punters, adding this time that the art of making movies isn’t dying, but “just evolving.”
“Today TV screens are getting bigger and bigger and therefore the difference between theatre and domestic viewing has become really flimsy,” he added, before getting into more detail (via Variety).
Cronenberg seems to be enjoying setting himself up as the anti-Christopher Nolan on this one, and we’d definitely plonk ourselves down in a ringside seat to see these two argue it out.
More on this as we get it.