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  1. Apr 21, 2023 · The new Dead Ringers show starring Rachel Weisz is actually based on the true story of a pair of twin gynecologists. A tale of two doctors that inspired a Cronenberg movie and a Rachel Weisz-led ...

  2. Apr 21, 2023 · The brothers’ story eventually inspired a novel, Twins, by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, and a film adaptation, Dead Ringers, directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jeremy Irons in both roles.

  3. Apr 21, 2023 · When David Cronenberg wrote the film Dead Ringers back in 1988, he credited the basis of the story to the novel Twins, written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland. The truth is, only the concept of ...

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  4. May 8, 2024 · What complicates the morality of the filmmaking, is that in the opening credits, where Cronenberg made the decisions, he doesn’t claim that the film is based on a true story. Instead, it says, “Based on the Book Twins by Bari Wood and Jackie Gleason.”. It was the marketing, where Cronenberg didn’t have a say, of the film that played up ...

  5. Apr 20, 2023 · Eerily, all the versions of "Dead Ringers" are based on disturbing real-life events. In 1975, identical twin doctors named Stewart and Cyril Marcus were found dead in one of their New York City ...

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  6. Apr 19, 2023 · The Marcus Twins: Real-Life Muses for Dead Ringers. No, ‘Dead Ringers’ is not based on a true story. The show is based on David Cronenberg ’s 1988 eponymous film and the novel ‘Twins,’ written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which also serves as the source novel of Cronenberg’s film. Although the show and the movie are fictional ...

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  8. Apr 18, 2023 · The answer is yes and no — and the movie wasn't the first time that a story like that was told. The original Dead Ringers is based on Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s 1977 novel Twins. That book is a fictionalized interpretation of the real-life events surrounding the deaths of Stewart and Cyril Marcus, twin gynecologists and notable ...

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