Director David Cronenberg is heading to the small screen.

The History of Violence helmer is teaming with Media Rights Capital for his first foray into television. He will direct the pilot as well as serve as an executive producer on Knifeman, based on biography by Wendy Moore.

The drama, which has yet to be shopped to buyers, focuses on the trials and triumphs of a radical, self-educated surgeon, delivering a visceral portrait of the extraordinary and unorthodox lengths he will go to uncover the secrets of the human body. Cronenberg will be a partner on the project, much as David Fincher is on MRC’s House of Cards, set to debut on Netflix this year.

Knifeman is being written by Emmy-nominated writer-producer Rolin Jones (Friday Night Lights, Weeds, Smash) with the story by Jones and Ron Fitzgerald (Friday Night Lights). The MRC project will count Cronenberg and Jones, along with the Stars Road team of Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Robert Zotnowski as executive producers. Sentient’s Renee Tab is attached as a co-executive producer as well. The team's next step is casting a lead.

Cronenberg, who recently wrapped filing on Cosmopolis, based on the Don De Lillo novel and starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche, is repped by WME, Sentient Entertainment and Behr & Abramson. His credits include such projects as Eastern Promises, M. Butterfly and A Dangerous Method.

曾執(zhí)導(dǎo)《暴力史》和《東方的承諾》大導(dǎo)演大衛(wèi)·柯南伯格(David Cronenberg)即將蒞臨小熒幕！

他將和Media Rights Capital(簡(jiǎn)稱MRC)公司聯(lián)手制作他的首部電視作品《Knifeman》，并且親自執(zhí)導(dǎo)這部改編自Wendy Moore自傳的劇集首播集同時(shí)出任執(zhí)行制片人。

故事的主角是一位自學(xué)成才，方法激進(jìn)的外科醫(yī)師，劇情將剖析刻畫(huà)他以非同尋常的方法揭開(kāi)人體秘密……Cronenberg是這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的合伙人，就像大衛(wèi)·芬奇(David Fincher)同樣為MRC制作的《紙牌屋》一樣，將在Netflix于今年上進(jìn)行首播?！禟nifeman》的劇本由艾美獎(jiǎng)提名編劇洛林·瓊斯(Rolin Jones)創(chuàng)作，MRC為這個(gè)項(xiàng)目籠絡(luò)到Cronenberg和Jones后還組建了一只幕后夢(mèng)之隊(duì)，以大導(dǎo)演山姆·雷米(Sam Raimi)為主首的監(jiān)制隊(duì)伍，他們的下一步工作就是選演員。

Cronenberg最近剛剛完成了電影《大都市》的拍攝，這部建立在Don De Lillo小說(shuō)基礎(chǔ)上的作品由羅伯特·帕丁森(Robert Pattinson)、保羅·吉亞瑪提(Paul Giamatti)和朱麗葉·比諾什(Juliette Binoche)主演。