Director Cronenberg Writing a Novel

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Award-winning Canadian film director David Cronenberg, attending the Rome Film Festival this week, said he has written 60 pages of a novel. But besides ruling out that it would be horror or science fiction, he offered few details on the project.

"Based on the pages I have written we found publishers all over the world, which is very terrifying to me," Cronenberg told the Associated Press. "It's not like Stephen King, I don't know what it's like but you wouldn't call it a horror or science fiction novel at all. But what it is exactly, well, I don't know yet."

Cronenberg did not specify if the main character would be able to make people’s heads explode with his mind; or turn into a half-man, half insect creature; or be an insane twin gynecologist.

The director, known for "Videodrome," "The Fly," and "A History of Violence," said he had wanted to write a book for 50 years.

Cronenberg also answered questions from fans and moviegoers, one of the fixtures of the Rome festival.