Posts Tagged ‘The Talking Cure’


-Finally someone gets to the bottom of Freddy vs. Jason.

- Someone needs to tell Heidi Montag that she can't just keep saying she's writing movies. Not only has she supposedly written a film where her 3D breasts kill a shark, but now she claims to be working on "Bourne-Meets-Barbie" as a starring vehicle for herself. That's not the funniest part of the story. Frozen-face Montag went on to say "I've trained in knife fighting and guns for over two years with one of the founding members of Saw, [who] was [in] the original Delta Force. So I've been shooting and practicing the whole real-life action figure for years."

I don't even know where to begin with that statement... One of the "founding members"(?) of Saw was in the original Delta Force? Leigh Whannell and James Wan were both born the year Delta Force was founded... I'm going to lose sleep until I get to the bottom of her bubbly madness.

- David Cronenberg's new film, based on Christoper Hampton's play The Talking Cure, will now be renamed The Dangerous Method. It is still set to star Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel and Keira Knightley.

- Ridley Scott tells The Times that he's already considering a sequel to his forthcoming Robin Hood, going so far as to give a brief outline of what story it would tell.

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When an actor wins an Oscar, all bets are off, including the ones he's made with David Cronenberg. Last December, Cronenberg revived The Talking Cure and had recruited Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, and Christoph Waltz to psychoanalyze one another in the name of love and medicine. But Waltz has been buried in offers, and Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that he's dropped out of the project in favor of Water For Elephants. Luckily, Cronenberg has a very good actor and friend in his contacts, and he just called him up. The result is that Viggo Mortensen has now joined The Talking Cure as Sigmund Freud.

Cure centers on a young Carl Jung who uses Sigmund Freud's "talking cure" on a young and troubled Russian woman. In the process of psychoanalyzing her, he falls in love with her. Freud comes along, marvels at his success, and anoints him his psychiatric successor. When Jung starts to develop his own ideas about therapy, Freud isn't too happy, and their professional relationship sours. DHD says that the producers have promised "lots of spirited sex" which Cronenberg has always filmed rather well, so no surprise there.

Mortensen and Cronenberg have two excellent films under their belt, and there's no reason to sneer at a third. (Or a fourth if they ever make that Eastern Promises sequel.) I'm eager to see Mortensen work with Fassbender and Knightley (who both rank among my favorites) and the two method men should really fire up the screen. It's going to be good.

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