Production Weekly tweeted that the new title for the adaptation of the play THE TALKING CURE is.. A DANGEROUS METHOD.. from David Cronenberg, the director of A History Of Violence. Starring Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen who replaced Christoph Waltz. Production will start in mid-May in Vienna and Zurich with the theatrical release expected in 2011…
THE TALKING CURE based on the play by Christopher Hampton about Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and their complicated relationship with a Russian patient named Sabina Spielrein.
Knightley would play Spielrein, Fassbedner would play Jung and Mortensen would play Freud.
A beautiful young woman, driven mad by her past. An ambitious doctor on a mission to succeed. Anesteemed mentor with a revolutionary cure. Let the mind games begin…
You can get THE TALKING CURE on paperback at amazon, here’s the official synopsis..
“Overshadowed by portents of the coming wars, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for this tale of emotional vicissitude and intellectual debate. The Talking Cure is an intimate picture of the birth of psychoanalysis and of two intense and inextricably interwoven relationships. Carl Jung uses Sigmund Freud’s “talking cure” on Sabina, a young Russian hysteric with whom he will fall in love. Impressed with Jung’s results, Freud anoints him his successor, but when Jung develops his own theories they part ways. Sensitive and intelligent, The Talking Cure illuminates the origins of one of the twentieth century’s most influential schools of thought.