David Cronenberg Is Developing an Adaptation of CONSUMED for Netflix
Director David Cronenberg has a new project that he’s developing Netflix. It’s a miniseries adaptation of his 2014 novel titled Consumed. He announced the news while presenting the 4K Crash restoration at Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema.
Consumed tells the story of a pair of camera-obsessed, globetrotting, gore-obsessed journalists “whose entanglement in a French philosopher’s death becomes a surreal journey into global conspiracy.” This certainly sounds like an interesting project, and there’s no doubt that Cronenberg is going to do some crazy shit with it as he brings it to life.
Here’s the official synopsis for the book that will give you a better idea of the story and what’s in store for the series:
Stylish and camera-obsessed, Naomi and Nathan thrive on the yellow journalism of the social-media age. They are lovers and competitors—nomadic freelancers in pursuit of sensation and depravity, encountering each other only in airport hotels and browser windows.
Naomi finds herself drawn to the headlines surrounding Celestine and Aristide Arosteguy, Marxist philosophers and sexual libertines. Celestine has been found dead and mutilated in her Paris apartment. Aristide has disappeared. Police suspect him of killing her and consuming parts of her body. With the help of an eccentric graduate student named Herve Blomqvist, Naomi sets off in pursuit of Aristide. As she delves deeper into Celestine and Aristide’s lives, disturbing details emerge about their sex life—which included trysts with Herve and others. Can Naomi trust Herve to help her?
Nathan, meanwhile, is in Budapest photographing the controversial work of an unlicensed surgeon named Zoltán Molnar, once sought by Interpol for organ trafficking. After sleeping with one of Molnar’s patients, Nathan contracts a rare STD called Roiphe’s. Nathan then travels to Toronto, determined to meet the man who discovered the syndrome. Dr. Barry Roiphe, Nathan learns, now studies his own adult daughter, whose bizarre behavior masks a devastating secret.
These parallel narratives become entwined in a gripping, dreamlike plot that involves geopolitics, 3-D printing, North Korea, the Cannes Film Festival, cancer, and, in an incredible number of varieties, sex. “Consumed” is an exuberant, provocative debut novel from one of the world’s leading film directors.
This has got Cornenberg written all over it and I have no doubt that the project is going to end up being an unconventional and crazy-ass viewing experience.
Source: World of Reel