Brandon Cronenberg started work on the screenplay for Infinity Pool the best part of a decade ago, but the idea has been haunting the fringes of his mind for much longer. The Antiviral and Possessor filmmaker had the embryonic concept that would form the backbone of the film, but he ended up pinning it to a much earlier memory.
‘It was a bit of a mash-up of ideas,’ he tells Teasers ahead of the film's Sundance premiere. ‘I started by writing a short story that I have never