Cronenberg's Next?

Yet another Cronenberg project on the go. This one, "Eastern Promises" is being written by the fellow who wrote Stephen Frear's mighty-fine "Dirty Pretty Things." Shooting is supposed to start in November. Naomi Watts (busy lady that she is, attaching herself to Michael Haneke's remake of Funny Games) and Viggo Mortensen are attached to star in the crime drama.

"In the film, a 14-year-old girl dies on Christmas while giving birth in a London hospital... A midwife whose search for the girl's family takes her to London's shady Russian crime community and to a Russian crime boss who is not what he seems."

Your guess is as good as mine as to whether this, "London Fields" or "Map to the Stars" will make it to the screen first.