Naked Lunch

Ok, stay with me here. Naked Lunch is a pseudo-autobiographical story by William S. Burroughs, who is known as an odd duck to begin with but also a renowned opiate addict (oh, this is already getting good). He runs off one day to Tangiers and decides to write a book. Now you have David Cronenberg wanting to do a film version of, what most considered, an unfilmable book. Ok, this list should give you and idea on his approach to things with eXistenZ and Videodrome. (Weird Book + Weird director = ????) Naked Lunch is the story of an exterminator who kills his wife, travels to Tangiers, enters a hallucinatory zone of the city where reality and fantasy merge into one. There he talks to insect-like humanoids and typewriters, all in his dream to become a writer. It has the usual Cronenberg obsession with flesh and deformity now with arthropods.