{"id":409585,"date":"2026-04-25T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409585\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T02:43:08","slug":"margaret-qualley-and-callum-turner-starring-in-parker-finnspossession-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/409585\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Qualley and Callum Turner starring in Parker Finn’sPossession remake"},"content":{"rendered":"

If we were making a list of horror movies ripe for a good remaking, you\u2019d have to scroll pretty damn far before you got anywhere close to Andrzej Zulawski<\/a>\u2018s 1981 nightmare vision of a dissolving marriage,\u00a0Possession<\/a>. Starring Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, the psychological horror film is so fundamentally rooted in the Polish director\u2019s very specific, deliberately messy mindset\u2014awash in thoughts about love, sex, Cold War-era politics, national identity, and more\u2014as to be almost impossible to imagine being filtered through any other creator\u2019s viewpoint. And that\u2019s to say nothing of the daunting question of who you\u2019d try to cast, especially in Adjani\u2019s complicated role as a ballet instructor who seems to be coming apart at the seams.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless:\u00a0Bloody Disgusting\u00a0reports<\/a> that Margaret Qualley and\u00a0Masters Of The Air\u00a0star Callum Turner have apparently been cast in Smile<\/a>\u00a0director Parker Finn\u2019s remake of Zulawski\u2019s film. Admittedly, they seem to have come across this information in a somewhat unconventional way: A Vanity Fair article<\/a> on a little mini-movie Paramount shot for itself to show off to distributors at CinemaCon last week, and which apparently included a quick shot of Finn, Qualley, and Turner happily hanging out together, no monstrous doppelgangers in tow. (We previously reported on the remake<\/a> back in June of 2024, as it happens; Robert Pattinson was attached to produce at the time, but there\u2019s no further word of his involvement at the moment.)<\/p>\n

Turner seems perfectly serviceable in the film\u2019s \u201cprotagonist\u201d role; Neill spends a decent chunk of the original movie simply being baffled or worried by the chaos erupting around him, so the former\u00a0Fantastic Beasts\u00a0survivor should slot in reasonably well. The bigger point of interest is Qualley, who\u2019s still relatively fresh off playing with similar loaded metaphors for identity, sexuality, and duality in\u00a0The Substance; it\u2019ll be genuinely interesting to see what she can do with this material, especially the famous three-minute sequence in which Adjani has a full-body breakdown in the middle of a subway station.<\/p>\n

(The\u00a0biggest question mark, of course is Finn, plus the basic worries attendant to the idea of a studio remake of a highly personal horror movie; the Smile\u00a0director has proven he can put some very fucked up images on a screen, but it\u2019s hard to imagine Paramount being fully on board with letting him get quite as exultantly, deliberately incoherent as Zulawski\u2019s film ultimately gets.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If we were making a list of horror movies ripe for a good remaking, you\u2019d have to scroll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-409585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}