Cronenberg Helming 'As She Climbed Across the Table'

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Media Rights Capital has made a pre-emptive acquisition of the Jonathan Lethem novel As She Climbed Across the Table, in a package that has David Cronenberg directing, Bruce Wagner writing and Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch producing.

The novel is a love triangle among an academic, his particle-physicist girlfriend, and the black hole that comes as the result of her lab experiments to replicate the origins of the universe. The physicist dumps her boyfriend to spend all her time with the black hole -- which she calls Lack -- and the university professor will do anything to win her back, even confronting his rival for her affections and risking a trip down a cosmic rabbit hole.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/media-rights-capital-acquires-black-hole-thriller-for-david-cronenberg/

With MRC getting the rights I think it's highly possible that this is going to be Cronenberg's next project and I hope so too since this sounds absolutely fantastic with the fantasy and also comedy elements and with Cronenberg to direct it. Just great.