From Antiviral director Brandon Cronenberg, the sci-fi thriller Possessor has been fully cast, Variety reports.
Sean Bean, best known for The Lord of the Rings and “Game of Thrones,” Jennifer Jason Leigh, Oscar nominated for Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, and Stacy Martin (Nymphomaniac) have joined the previously announced Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott.
The movie follows Tasya Vos (Riseborough), an agent for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of high-paying clients. But something goes wrong on a routine job, and she soon finds herself trapped in the mind of an unwitting suspect (Abbott), whose appetite for violence turns out to rival her own.
Well Go USA Entertainment will release the film in the U.S. with Elevation Pictures will distributing the film in Canada.
Production is set to begin this April in Canada.