Viggo Mortensen on the Graphic Novel That Inspired the Film: “I didn’t even know it existed, but at some point in the shoot somebody showed it to me. I looked at it – it’s a different genre – it’s neither better nor worse.
My taste, obviously, I liked the movie more because I think it’s less predictable and less - not so much an exploitation movie. The movie, I think, cleverly embraces a lot of the language and the symbolism of exploitation storytelling and Westerns and a lot of seemingly familiar ways of telling stories, particularly in American movies. But it turns them all on their head, you know? It uses…it subverts all kinds of genres. This movie is a very unique and original piece of work. Cronenberg gets all the credit in the world for it.”
