David Cronenberg to Direct Jonathan Lethem's 'As She Rose Over the Table'

If there's any director who are able to undertake a tale in regards to a love triangular including a black hole, it's may be David Cronenberg, who's always had an affinity for out-there sci-fi situations with highbrow appeal. Media Privileges Capital just acquired the Jonathan Lethem novel 'As She Rose Over the Table' for Cronenberg to direct. The novel is all about an academic whose physicist girlfriend accidentally produces a black hole in her own lab. She then provides it with a title and stays her time by using it, driving her jealous professor love right into a cosmic confrontation. Certainly not your average boy-meets-girl story. Cronenberg's almost not a stranger to adapting difficult books for that screen: His adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Dead Zone' remains among his best and many accessible films and William S. Burroughs' 'Naked Lunch' among his most mind-bending and bizarre. He's already wrapped filming on 'Cosmopolis,' in line with the Don DeLillo advanced novel, starring Taylor Lautner and Keira Knightley. His newest collaborations with star Viggo Mortensen, such as the approaching 'A Harmful Method' about Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, happen to be relatively mainstream in comparison to his early films, such as the disturbingly visceral horror films 'The Brood,' 'Scanners' and 'Videodrome' and skin-moving thrillers like 'Dead Ringtones.' For Lethem's most well-known novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' in regards to a detective with Tourette's, it had been optioned soon after its 1999 release by Edward Norton to star in and direct. It presently has a tentative 2013 release date. [via Deadline]