So how would you feel if Cronenberg made a return to sci-fi and mindf*cking? According to Pajiba, the Canadian-born filmmaker is evidently attached to adapt Jonathan Lethem’s AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE.
A little about the book, from Amazon.com: Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it “Lack.” Alice becomes obsessed with Lack, as Philip is obsessed by Alice.
The film is being produced by writer/producer Steve Zallian (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO) and is said to be “in the vein of ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND”. Interesting…
Cronenberg is currently filming his Sigmund Freud/Carl Jung drama A DANGEROUS METHOD, which is expected to be released sometime next year.