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Recorded Picture Company, lead producer on David Cronenberg’s latest project, has changed the title from The Talking Cure to A Dangerous Method. I did think at the time the title was a trifle dull. Production starts in Germany next month.
Universal Pictures International has announced it is taking Cronenberg’s new movie — about psychiatrist Carl Jung’s passionate affair with a disturbed young patient — for Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa. Christian Grass, president of international production and acquisitions or UPI, negotiated the deal with producer Jeremy Thomas.
Michael Fassbender stars as Jung, with Viggo Mortensen as Freud and Keira Knightley as the patient.
Hanway Films, RPC’s sales arm, has already pre-sold the film to Canada, France, Australia, Portugal, Benelux, Greece, Romania, Poland, Russia, Latin America and the former Yugoslavia. No word yet though on who’s releasing the film either in the States or domestically over here.
A Dangerous Method re-teams Thomas and Cronenberg after their thriller Crash in 1996, and Naked Lunch in 1991. When I last spoke to them the production was promising “lots of spirited sex.” Let’s hope that hasn’t changed too.
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“The Talking Cure” was a completely appropriate, double-edged title whereas “A Dangerous Method” sounds like a story about a Stanislavskian bomb thrower. Why not call it “Jung and Restless”? “Couching Tiger, Hidden Loin”? “Freud Green Tomatoes”? What silly notes on a really fine script (I’ve read it).
To Santayana: Ah, intelligence! How refreshing in the morning!
@Roger: Thanks. Id was nothing at all.
@Santayana: how did you get hold of the script? How big would you say Keira Knightley’s part is? Do you think it’s a very good female role?
If it’s anything like the play, the female role is spectacular, and the centerpiece of the story.
Can’t wait! A movie for grownups.
Okay – I see where “talking” doesn’t exactly compel folks to run to the theater. But it does at least tell you what the movie’s about. “A Dangerous Method” could be the title of any movie in the history of ever.
A History of Violence and Eastern Promises were both terrific, and wildly different, movies — Cronenberg is one of the few American/Canadian directors in their 60s who still is vital and exciting — and perhaps in his 60s has more appreciation for a tight script than he did in some of his crazier phases. Can’t wait for this, and love that he and Viggo have really developed a partnership a la Scorsese-Deniro.
Who cares what the title is? This is a David Cronenberg movie.
I mean that alone sells the movie enough to me, you know?
“Sex And The Sinchronicity” “Anima Hall,” “Raiders Of The Lost Archetype”…
They could call it “Flip Flop” for all I care AND I WOULD BE THE FIRST PERSON IN LINE TO CHECK IT OUT! This is, as someone else so eloquently put it, A DAVID CRONENBERG FILM! Even his so-called failures are better than most mediocre directors successes! Cronenberg is one of a rare breed with a set of “brass ones” that afford him the audacity to deconstruct social, psychological and sexual taboos on screen. Mr. Cronenberg is the original master in this territory. Oh my, Jung and dreamscapes and mythology . . . Okay, I’ll stop gushing now . . . I just hope Keira K pulls her weight in what has to be very weighty intellectual material.
The play is dramatically inert, a real bomb — an unforgivable outcome given such rich material and Christopher Hampton’s usual finesse.
Here’s hoping Cronenberg’s film version adds some real tension to the story.
I just wanna see Spader licking a scar again