Almost exactly two years ago, a few reports said that Cronenberg was adapting The Talking Cure, a 2002 play by Christopher Hampton. (Ralph Fiennes, Cronenberg’s star in Spider, appeared in one of the primary productions of the play.) The story’s arc concerns the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl JungSigmund Freud, and their parallel relationships with a beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein. Shades of Dead Ringers in there, yeah? In some ways this sounds like the subtext of much of Cronenberg’s work being brought right to the surface. Could be interesting. But we’ve heard almost nothing about the possibility of the film since that announcement. and

Cronenberg is a very active filmmaker when it comes to development. He’s got a list of once-possible projects a mile long; often he’ll work on a few different things, and when one comes together all the others are put down. Often they are fully abandoned. I would have guessed that The Talking Cure would be one of these, so this little mention is a surprise. For what it’s worth, I’d also expect The Matarese Circle, Cronenberg’s aborted Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington project, to be another abandoned effort.

Then, for those keeping track, there’s also Cosmopolis, the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that seemed like Cronenberg’s likely next project after Matarese fell apart. Then Fox reportedly has him developing another remake of The Fly, but that really seems like leverage to get another film made. “Stop dragging your feet here, guys, or you’ll lose me to Fox,” — that sort of thing. Time will tell.

Source: ifilm.com