{"id":562661,"date":"2026-07-01T02:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/562661\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T02:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:26:16","slug":"paul-dano-joins-possession-remake-at-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/562661\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Dano Joins &#8216;Possession&#8217; Remake At Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paul-dano\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-dano\" data-tag=\"paul-dano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Dano<\/a> is set to star opposite Callum Turner and Margaret Qualley in the remake of 1981 supernatural thriller\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/possession\/\" id=\"auto-tag_possession\" data-tag=\"possession\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Possession<\/a> coming together at Paramount, Deadline can confirm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCharacter details are under wraps. Parker Finn, the writer-director behind the hit horror franchise Smile, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/robert-pattinson-smile-director-parker-finn-possession-1235971948\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his take on\u00a0Possession<\/a>\u00a0for Paramount in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/06\/monica-barbaro-margot-robbie-bradley-cooper-oceans-prequel-1236971768\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782872775_99_GettyImages-2202517921-e1782859457133.jpg\" alt=\"Monica Barbaro\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/horror-movies-2026-release-dates-1236603021\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Horror-2026-A-Look-Ahead.jpg\" alt=\"Clockwise Top L-R: 'Hokum,' 'Scream 7,' 'The Bride!,' 'Hunting Matthew Nichols,' 'We Bury The Dead,' 'Psycho Killer' 'ALPHA,' 'The Plague,' '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple' and 'The Bride!'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFinn is directing from his own script and producing alongside Jonathan Fass via Bad Feeling, along with Roy Lee\u00a0and Andrew Childs\u00a0via Vertigo, and Robert Pattinson. Marc Bienstock is serving as exec producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWritten and directed by Andrzej \u017bu\u0142awski, Possession starred Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill as a married couple in Cold War-era West Berlin whose relationship spirals into supernatural terror. The film is a landmark of arthouse genre cinema and won Adjani the prize for Best Actress at Cannes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost recently seen starring opposite Alicia Vikander and Tom Sturridge in Olivier Assayas\u2019 The Wizard of the Kremlin, Dano\u2019s upcoming slate includes Florian Zeller\u2019s psychological thriller Bunker, Ramin Bahrani\u2019s Vegas: A Love Story and A24\u2019s The Chaperones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tNexus Lexus was first to Dano\u2019s involvement with the new take on Possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Dano is set to star opposite Callum Turner and Margaret Qualley in the remake of 1981 supernatural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,6002,22983,153695],"class_list":["post-562661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-paramount-pictures","tag-paul-dano","tag-possession"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116842357926183256","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}