Movie News Archive

The Talking Cure

May 25th
Here's a French interview with David Cronenberg regarding A Dangerous Method, which starts filming in Europe this week.

April 25th
UPI has picked up on distribution of A Dangerous Method to Europe and South Africa. Article.

April 14th
Keira's next project The Talking Cure has a new title, A Dangerous Method, according to ProductionWeekly.com, and states a mid-May start in Berlin, Vienna and Zurich.

March 9th
Viggo Mortensen has taken over the role of Sigmund Freud from Christophe Waltz in The Talking Cure, it has been revealed. Michael Fassbender will still play Carl Jung. Filming is due to start on May 17th for ten weeks.

February 26th
The Talking Cure is set to start filming in May, according to Keira's co-star Michael Fassbender in this interview. The Croatian press have already said a March visit by Keira and co to film The Beautiful & Damned, so if rumours become fact (when do they ever?) Damned should start straight after The Misanthrope, and then Cure to shoot in May.

February 21st
The final draft of the script for The Talking Cure has now been completed, according to the updated IMDbPro 'Project Notes' section. And there's now an official synopsis on the production company's web site (go to Our Films > Development).

January 26th
Another interview with David Fassbender sort-of dates a start for The Talking Cure, possibly late April/early May.
Thanks Danielle

January 14th
Director David Cronenberg confirms he is in discussion with Keira over The Talking Cure, but says in this interview that casting has not been confirmed.

However, Baz in The Daily Mail says in his Friday column that ...Cure is one of two films Keira has lined up post-Misanthrope (the other may be The Beautiful & The Damned, which is still officially on). He also says she has walked away from My Fair Lady as it was taking too long to come together.

January 11th
Michael Fassbender talks about looking forward to working with Keira on The Talking Cure in this interview - the closest we have so far to a confirmation.

December 23rd
NEW MOVIE !!! (?)
It is being reported that Keira has signed to play Sabina Spielrein in a movie version of Christopher Hampton's 2002 play about psychoanalysts Jung and Freud entitled The Talking Cure. It will be directed by David Cronenberg and co-star Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender. Hampton's play focuses on the relationship between Spielrein and Jung, when he was treating her at the Burghölzli mental hospital near Zurich in 1904. Jung used Freudian techniques to try and overcome Spielrein's association of paternal punishment with physical arousal. (Hampton was the Oscar-nominated screenwriter on Atonement, and won the award for his adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons in 1988). The news comes via an update to the Facebook page of Australian film distributor Hopscotch, which sounds about as reliable as a British tabloid, so we await concrete confirmation from Variety, for example. More on the newswire as it comes in.