Knightley, Fassbender, Waltz In Cronenberg’s THE TALKING CURE

I’ve been reading Robert Ludlum‘s The Matarese Circle, director David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History Of Violence) was supposed to bring the adaptation to the big screen but that didn’t happen since Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington who were possible stars said farewell to the project. The fate of COSMOPOLIS is still unclear as well. So what’s Cronenberg up to next? The playlist came across the facebook page of Australian distributor Hopscotch films that says Cronenberg is adapting THE TALKING CURE and 3 familiar actors will be joining in…

It says that Keira Knightley and the Inglourious Basterds actors Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz will star in THE TALKING CURE based on the play by Christopher Hampton about Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and their complicated relationship with a Russian patient named Sabina Spielrein.
Right not the assumption is Knightly would play Spielrein, Fassbedner would play Jung and Waltz would play Freud.

A beautiful young woman, driven mad by her past. An ambitious doctor on a mission to succeed. Anesteemed mentor with a revolutionary cure. Let the mind games begin…

You can get THE TALKING CURE on paperback at amazon, here’s the official synopsis..

“Overshadowed by portents of the coming wars, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this tale of emotional vicissitude and intellectual debate. The Talking Cure is an intimate picture of the birth of psychoanalysis and of two intense and inextricably interwoven relationships. Carl Jung uses Sigmund Freud’s “talking cure” on Sabina, a young Russian hysteric with whom he will fall in love. Impressed with Jung’s results, Freud anoints him his successor, but when Jung develops his own theories they part ways. Sensitive and intelligent, The Talking Cure illuminates the origins of one of the twentieth century’s most influential schools of thought.
Overshadowed by portents of the coming wars, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this tale of emotional vicissitude and intellectual debate. The Talking Cure is an intimate picture of the birth of psychoanalysis and of two intense and inextricably interwoven relationships. Carl Jung uses Sigmund Freud’s “talking cure” on Sabina, a young Russian hysteric with whom he will fall in love. Impressed with Jung’s results, Freud anoints him his successor, but when Jung develops his own theories they part ways. Sensitive and intelligent, The Talking Cure illuminates the origins of one of the twentieth century’s most influential schools of thought.”