It looks like Robert Pattinson and the Smile director are remaking Possession

Robert Pattinson is putting all that goodwill he’s built up over the last decade toward the most horrifying divorce drama imaginable. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Pattinson and Smile director Parker Finn have “quietly” teamed up to remake Andrzej Żuławski’s most infamous nightmare, Possession.

The 1981 thriller’s reputation has grown significantly in the past few years, mainly as its influence spread in the so-called “elevated horror” space. Namely, A24 horror and horror-adjacent thrillers like The Lighthouse and Hereditary operated on a similar wavelength, transforming their ghost stories into extended metaphors for trauma, mental illness, and sexual transgression. That’s all in Possession, and Finn’s Smile, which takes a less elegant approach to the trauma-as-monster subgenre, turning in a broader, more commercial version of It Follows. Smile was also a big hit for a low budget, so it makes sense that A24, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros. are bidding for the remake.

Pattinson is producing but has yet to be announced for a role in the film. We can only assume he’s stepping into the Sam Neill part of Mark, a West Berlin spy returning from duty to find his wife, Anna (Isabella Adjani), demanding a divorce but refusing to explain why. She says she is neither having an affair nor has she found new love. Nevertheless, her refusal to explain herself drives Mark into a violent frenzy that seemingly transfers to Anna, whose mental state also starts to spiral as a result of the hostile separation. The whole thing becomes a psycho-sexual whirlwind unbound by logic and populated with some of the sexiest tentacle monsters in cinema history.

The film’s most infamous sequence sees Adjani having an intense physical and emotional breakdown in a subway tunnel. Armed with groceries and an unending well of tears, she thrashes about the underground, smashing her milk carton against the wall in a fury. In recent years, the scene has routinely gone viral on various social media platforms, where Anna now exists as a meme for scorned women hiding a violent, manic rage. Her performance is often used in conversation with recent, emotionally draining horror performances, such as Hereditary’s Toni Collette and Midsommar’s Florence Pugh. Damn, we guess Ari Aster has the market cornered in that regard.

Finn is currently in post-production for Smile 2 (somehow not called Smiles), and Pattinson’s Mickey 17, directed by Bong Joon Ho, is currently in limbo at Warner Bros. Will Possession hit theaters before Mickey 17? Anything’s possible in a world where the Smile guy and Batman are remaking Possession.