The Spider director is developing Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps to the Stars, according to Screen Daily.

David Cronenberg is currently working on his long-gestating London Fields, based on Martin Amis' 1991 novel of the same name.

The famous Canadian director who released A History of Violence this year, announced that France's UGC has come on board London Fields as a co-producer and that the film is being structured as a Canada/France/UK co-production.

Cronenberg has recently abandoned his original screenplay for the sci-fi thriller Painkillers.

One finds one doesn't like it five years later. It feels like it's from another era. The film would have focused on a police detective who is sent undercover to save humanity in a future where surgery is the new sex and pain the new forbidden pleasure, said the director.

Director - filmography

London Fields (2006) (announced)
A History of Violence (2005)
Spider (2002)
Camera (2000/I)
eXistenZ (1999)
Crash (1996/I)
M. Butterfly (1993)
Naked Lunch (1991)
"Scales of Justice" (1990) TV Series (episode "Regina vs Horvath") (episode "Regina vs Logan")
Dead Ringers (1988)
"Friday the 13th" (1987) TV Series (episode "Faith Healer")
The Fly (1986)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Scanners (1981)
The Brood (1979)
Fast Company (1979)
Rabid (1977)
"Teleplay" (1976) TV Series (episode "The Italian Machine")
"Peep Show" (1975) TV Series (episode "The Lie Chair") (episode "The Victim")
Shivers (1975)
The Victim (1974)
Don Valley (1972) (TV)
Fort York (1972) (TV)
In the Dirt (1972) (TV)
Lakeshore (1972) (TV)
Scarborough Bluffs (1972) (TV)
Winter Garden (1972) (TV)
Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971) (TV)
Letter from Michelangelo (1971) (TV)
Tourettes (1971) (TV)
"Programme X" (1970) TV Series (episode "Secret Weapons")
Crimes of the Future (1970)
Stereo (1969)
From the Drain (1967)
Transfer (1966)