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Cronenberg heads East
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Though it's unclear which will come first, a
film called Eastern Promises has joined the previously-discussed Map to the
Stars on David
Cronenberg's list of upcoming projects. Promises is a thriller by Steven Knight, who also wrote 2002's Dirty Pretty Things. According to
Variety, Knight's new script treads similar ground, once again visiting the "seamy underside of
life" in London, this time through the story of "a young midwife [who is] drawn into investigating the
identity of a mysterious Russian girl who dies in childbirth on Christmas Eve." When the girl turns out to be a
prostitute who was brought to the country by a sex-trafficking gang, things get a little hairy for the midwife.The film, budgeted at between $15 and $20 million, is being produced by the group behind the Oscar-nominated Pride & Prejudice. Cronenberg hopes to begin filming this fall, but since he may have to be in the US for Map to the Stars, the new project's schedule is still very much up in the air.
Cronenberg is coming to America
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Recent reports indicate that David Cronenberg will follow up A
History of Violence - arguably his most well-received picture to date - by making his first ever film on
American turf. The project is called Maps to the Stars, and is being described as "darkly comic drama
about Hollywood excess and intrigue." Hold off on that "Boy, that sounds just like..." reaction for a
second, though, because Cronenberg is way ahead of you: "It is not," he says, "a satire
like The
Player." Just so you know.Since Cronenberg has actually never worked in Hollywood before, he'll be relying heavily on the film's screenplay (by Bruce Wagner, who wrote Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and I'm Losing You, which Cronenberg executive produced) for "a genuine look at Hollywood culture." Despite taking aim at an incredibly easy target, the director insists that he "won't fall back on some cliches or simplistic sloganeering, because the culture and what it reveals about Western culture and the rest of the world is very complex." Jeez, alright already. The man is clarifying so much before he even gets started that even he's sounding a little worried.
Cronenberg will steel himself for the border crossing and start shooting in LA in the fall.
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