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Twin Terrors
David Cronenberg’s thriller Dead Ringers is adapted into a chilling limited series
When a child is born… it’s all downhill from here.
IN 1988, DAVID CRONENBERG unleashed Dead Ringers into cinemas; a dark, twisted tale of codependent twins that set back women’s trust in gynaecology a few decades. It’s since become a classic in his varied and strange body of work, earning many high profile admirers, including actor Rachel Weisz.
About four years ago, Weisz was looking for a project with a complex female relationship at the centre of it and thought about how gender-flipping the twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle in Dead Ringers would turn that whole story on its head. Annapurna Television agreed and brought in British screenwriter Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession) to develop it into a six-episode limited series.