A custom image of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly against red curtains
The Big Picture David Cronenberg is a man of many talents. He's a screenwriter, actor, and even the author of a globe-trotting, geopolitical horror novel. Listen, we all know where this man is at his best, though. Cronenberg has spent the last half a century as one of the most inventive and disgusting filmmakers on the planet, drudging up one instant classic body horror film after the next.
The Fly RHorror Sci-FiDrama In a daring exploration of science's potential to alter human life, a brilliant but eccentric scientist develops a technology for teleportation. When he decides to test the device on himself, a tragic error involving a common housefly leads to horrifying consequences. The film chillingly portrays his transformation and the impact it has on his relationship and psyche.
As easy as it would be to give Cronenberg all the credit for this masterpiece, he did have decades of source material to work off of. Most people think that 1958's original Fly was a work of primordial, atomic age sci-fi horror. Despite that film, and its sequels, being a boat load of mid-century monster fun, even they weren't the first to tell the story of a man turned pesky insect.
As Shore, Hwang, and Cronenberg brought their 2008 opera to life, they had more material to pull from than any previous incarnation. In that, the opera seems to be pulling a little bit from each of them. For one, the decision was made not to bring it to modern day or set it in the 1980s, but to take things back to the source.
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