It's a special time right now to be a fan of
David Cronenberg. Next spring, his Jung/Freud and the woman who came between them drama
A Dangerous Method is released in the U.K. (no U.S. dates yet) and from
the looks of things and the potential the cast (Mortensen, Fassbender, Knightley) it could be the sleeper hit of 2011. Gearing up to being shooting around the same time will be
Cosmopolis - Cronenberg's ambitious $10-15 million Indie adaptation of
Don DeLillos novel that will star
Colin Farrell. The movie will be based on a newly married billionaire who takes a journey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut where along the way he has chance meetings with his wife lying naked in the street and two men that might be out to kill him - all the while he gambles away his fortune.
Marion Cotillard is set to play his wife, and now comes word from
The Playlist that
Paul Giamatti is in advanced discussions for a supporting role, presumably as 'Torval' who is described as 'bald and no-necked'
by this excerpt. Though nobody is seemingly wanting to go on the record about Giamatti's potential involvement. The novel takes place almost exclusively inside the limo driving the eccentric billionaire, so for the second time in Farrell's career he is doing the confined thriller thing. I say 'thriller' but I hear there's much more in this novel than what meets the eye. The other confined thriller was of course
Phone Booth, set entirely inside a telephone box. This time however, Farrell's movie is from a true artist and this plot is the closest material to his groundbreaking 80's material that made Cronenberg's name that we've seen in a good long while. Not that I'm complaining because I love
Eastern Promises and
A History of Violence... loved them in fact... but who wouldn't want to see vintage 80's Cronenberg? Colour me excited.