Viggo Mortensen Replaces Christoph Waltz For Cronenberg's THE TALKING CURE

Oscar winner Christoph Waltz. It’s really good saying that, Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, that’s uber bingo! was supposed to star along side Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley in the adaptation THE TALKING CURE to be directed by David Cronenberg but DeadlineHollywood said Cronenberg’s go-to guy Viggo Mortensen (A History Of Violence, Eastern Promises) has replaced Waltz, the reason is because Waltz wants to focus on starring in WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, for a villainous role that might be his ticket to Oscar again, can you imagine the possibilities…

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.
Knightly would play Spielrein, Fassbedner would play Jung and Mortensen 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.”