Cronenberg takes Knightley & two BASTERDS for THE TALKING CURE!
Cronenberg's next is a Psychoanalysts wet dream of a movie!
David Cronenberg has committed to his next project and it'll be The Talking Cure, an adaptation of Christopher Hamptons 2002 dialogue heavy play about close friends Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, the founding fathers of psychoanalysis. The play revolves around the gorgeous woman that inspired both men's greatest discoveries but also tore their relationship apart. Word comes word via Australian distributor Hopscotch Films, who have just agreed to distribute the film, that Keira Knightley will star as said woman, a Russian-Jewish patient by the name of Sabina Spilerein. She will receive top billing. 
It's a fascinating piece of casting. Cronenberg is the undisputed king of getting career best performances out of actors, his whole filmography is a thesp's showcase. Knightley, who is still maturing and getting better with each passing year will be tested like never before here. A Cronenberg picture is grueling, it's ruthless and you have to be on top of your game because Cronenberg so often relies on the person in front of the camera to tell the story. Inglourious Basterds co-stars Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star as the two great thinkers. They never shared a scene together in Tarantino's film, the movie that has springboarded both to the next level of fame on the Hollywood casting list, and they are reaping their rewards now with the kind of roles they are securing. Fassbender will play Jung. 
Waltz will play Freud. 
/film have heard the movie is a go and may even have an April 2010 shoot scheduled. 
Sigmund Freud (left), Carl Jung (right). A 2003 review of the play in The Guardian said;
It's a fascinating piece of casting. Cronenberg is the undisputed king of getting career best performances out of actors, his whole filmography is a thesp's showcase. Knightley, who is still maturing and getting better with each passing year will be tested like never before here. A Cronenberg picture is grueling, it's ruthless and you have to be on top of your game because Cronenberg so often relies on the person in front of the camera to tell the story. Inglourious Basterds co-stars Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star as the two great thinkers. They never shared a scene together in Tarantino's film, the movie that has springboarded both to the next level of fame on the Hollywood casting list, and they are reaping their rewards now with the kind of roles they are securing. Fassbender will play Jung. Waltz will play Freud. /film have heard the movie is a go and may even have an April 2010 shoot scheduled. Sigmund Freud (left), Carl Jung (right). A 2003 review of the play in The Guardian said; Hampton focuses on the young Jung's involvement with Sabina, a Russian-Jewish patient, that starts at Zurich's Burgholzi clinic in 1904. Deploying Freud's psychoanalytic techniques, Jung gets to the root of Sabina's problem: her childhood association of paternal punishment with physical arousal. Their relationship, however, transcends that of doctor and patient; and their sexual and emotional closeness - and Jung's refusal to tell the truth about it - has huge consequences. It leads to a breach between Jung and his mentor.Wow, what a project to be announced so close to Christmas. It's not entirely, entirely, entirely new ground for Cronenberg to cover. In 1988, some twenty one years ago, he made a great movie with Jeremy Irons by the name of Dead Ringers, which I'm pretty certain was influenced by this true account of a relationship that went sour between two great friends, with two great minds. That movie is a sheer masterpiece of character performance art. If Cronenberg delivers this again, then he could be onto something special this time next year, or early 2010...