Reuters reports that Eastern Promises, a thriller being produced by Focus Features and BBC Films will be the second movie teaming up arthouse director David Cronenberg and Lord of the rings star Viggo Mortensen.

Written by Steven Knight (who also wrote the script for Stephen Frears' 2002 Dirty Pretty Things), the future to be thriller is focused on the Russian mafia and sex traffic.

The story starts with a young Russian prostitute who dies during childbirth and a nurse is dragged into the underworld of sex trafficking involving the Russian mob. If this sounds familiar you must have seen Knight's and Frear's 2002 movie, but with Cronenberg at helm things are more than sure to get a raw end and some nasty twists.

Mortensen will play a mysterious man with ties to the mob (so much like in A History of Violence, don't you think?). Until the pre-production and the actual shooting start (sometime in the future, the details have not been established yet) audiences will see Viggo Mortensen in Agustín Díaz Yanes's Alatriste 17th century action movie.

A History of Violence was director David Cronenberg's most acclaimed movie, both by critics and audiences.