Cronenberg says he started writing this screenplay 20 years ago, and the result feels older still, a mutant descendant of his earliest work. Everyone talks like a hardboiled art critic, wandering through bare rooms, holding the narrative momentum close to zero. Rather than U of T’s brutalist buildings, he earned some tax credits shooting Crimes of the Future in Athens, where Viggo Mortensen and Lea Seydoux create their surgical theatre. Ships rust on the shore of a poisoned sea, breeding new denizens…