Cronenberg's "Knife Man" Makes The Cut

David Cronenberg will team with Media Rights Capital to direct the TV pilot "Knife Man", based on the biography "The Knife Man" by author Wendy Moore, about self-educated, 18th Century surgeon, John Hunter.

Cronenberg will also executive produce from a script by Rolin Jones ("Friday Night Lights"), alongside executive producers Jones, Sam Raimi, Josh Donen and Robert Zotnowski..

The real 'Dr. Hunter' counted among his patients, Benjamin Franklin, Lord Byron, Adam Smith and Thomas Gainsborough.

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