Parker Finn’s ‘Possession’ Remake Sets Summer 2027 Release Date

I’ll admit, I was a bit nervous about Parker Finn‘s (Smile) remake of the cult classic, Possession. Intense, frightening, and deeply intimate, it’s an unmatched masterpiece of horror. But the more I’ve seen of the cast, the more hopeful I’ve become. Paramount Pictures certainly seems to think they may have a winner, as Variety reports that the studio has set a summer 2027 release date!

The film stars The Substance breakout Margaret Qualley, Callum Turner (Green Room, Victor Frankenstein), Paul Dano (Prisoners), Diego Calva (Babylon), Madeline Brewer (Cam), Emory Cohen (Marty Supreme), and Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monster)

The original pic follows a woman who begins exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s film starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill. Adjani won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her performance. To this day, it’s considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. It also happens to be one of my favorite films, period. What Zulawski accomplishes with Possession is nothing short of brilliant. And Adjani? That performance has only become more legendary over the years, with films like The First Omen recently riffing on it.

Character details on the new film are being kept secret. But at this point, I don’t even care who’s playing who anymore, and I mean that in a good way. I liked Smile 2 so much, and this cast is so good, that I’m starting to believe this remake of one of my all-time favorite films may actually be worthwhile.

Robert Pattinson is producing via his production company Icki Eneo Arlo, along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee (Weapons, ).