Overview
- Vanity Fair quietly confirmed the casting on Friday through a CinemaCon photo that showed Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner with writer-director-producer Parker Finn.
- Parker Finn, known for Smile and Smile 2, will write, direct, and produce the remake for Paramount.
- Robert Pattinson is producing through Icki Eneo Arlo alongside Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment after earlier reports linked Pattinson to a starring role.
- Paramount now treats the remake as a priority project, though the film has no release date.
- The original Possession, directed by Andrzej Żuławski in 1981, earned Isabelle Adjani the Cannes Best Actress award and became a cult favorite for its Berlin Wall setting and raw intensity, which some critics fear a studio remake could blunt even as Finn promises a film with 'teeth and ferocity.'