David Cronenberg’s latest film “The Talking Cure” has changed titles to “A Dangerous Method” according to Production Weekly.
The film takes a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis, based on the play by Christopher Hampton. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung, Keira Knightley playing Sabina Spielrein, a disturbed young woman brought to see Jung by her father and then eventually has an affair with the famous Swiss psychiatrist.
Rounding out the cast is Vincent Cassell. Cameras are set to roll mid May in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich.
It seems as though Cronenberg has found his leading man for all his films. As we reported back in March, Mortensen and Cronenberg will also pair up for an untitled sequel to “Eastern Promises.” If the film gods play in Cronenberg’s favor it will mark the fourth straight collaboration together. Christoph Waltz (Oscar Winner for “Inglourious Basterds”) was originally scheduled to play Freud but dropped out to play another psychopath in “Water for Elephants” directed by Francis Lawrence (“I Am Legend, “Constantine”). We love Waltz, don’t get us wrong, but we love Cronenberg/ Mortensen duo even better so in the end it’s his loss. — Scott Ludden
