Producer Robert Lantos and filmmaker David Cronenberg are collaborating for a third time on the feature film Maps to the Stars, written by longtime Cronenberg friend, novelist and Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner.

According to Variety, and confirmed by sources at both Lantos’ Serendipity Point Films and Cronenberg’s Toronto office, the project is still in the financing and script development stage, with Cronenberg suggesting that in order to represent accurately the Hollywood fusion of materialism and pop culture that Wagner (I’m Losing You, I’ll Let You Go, Still Holding) depicts, part of the production will go on location in L.A. in addition to studio work in Toronto, marking his first shoot as director on U.S. soil.

Cronenberg and Lantos previously worked together on Crash, the Golden Reel Award winner in 1996, and eXistenZ, which was the fourth-highest grossing Canadian film in 1999 with $1.36 million in box office.

Lantos has also announced a $12-million adaptation of Anne Michaels’ critically hailed debut novel set during the Holocaust, Fugitive Pieces, to be directed by Jeremy Podewsa (Six Feet Under). The copro between Serendipity and Athens-based Takis Veremis’ Strada Films will start principal photography in the spring in Greece, before heading to Canada.

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