Canadian director David Cronenberg has reportedly recruited Keira Knightley, Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender for his adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s ‘The Talking Cure.’

The Playlist website says the project has been in the works for a while but that, now that the distribution rights have been bought by an Australian company, real work will likely be getting underway sooner rather later.

A synopsis posted on Playlist reads, “A beautiful young woman, driven mad by her past. An ambitious doctor on a mission to succeed. An esteemed mentor with a revolutionary cure. Let the mind games begin…Hampton’s play follows the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and their complicated relationships with a brilliant and beautiful patient, Sabina Spielrein.”

‘The Talking Cure’ is a 2002 play by Hampton. The writer won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1988 for the screen adaptation of his play ‘Dangerous Liaisons.’ He was nominated again in 2007 for adapting Ian McEwan’s novel ‘Atonement.’

Cronenberg was reportedly planning a Tom Cruise-Denzel Washington-starrer, ‘The Matarese Circle,’ but The Playist says that project fell apart earlier this year when Cruise chose to star in James Mangold’s ‘Knight & Day’ instead. Cronenberg then turned to an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’ which was due to begin in 2010.

It’s not known whether that project is still in the works.

Cronenberg’s most recent films are ‘A History Of Violence’ and ‘Eastern Promises.’

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