Reply #22: Here's an interesting link about Cronenberg from Indiana -- [View All]

where "A History of Violence" was supposed to happen (but didn't).

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051002/ENTERTAINMENT03/510020350/1080

With "A History of Violence" -- his latest film, which is set in Indiana -- the Canadian director breaks out of his world of plants that strangle people ("From the Drain"), flesh-eating parasites ("Shivers"), exploding heads ("Scanners"), a man-into-bug metamorphosis ("The Fly"), and nightmarish, sexually suggestive fantasy creatures ("Naked Lunch").

In "A History of Violence," Viggo Mortensen plays a small-town diner operator who is accused of being a New Jersey mobster after he kills two men who try to rob his business.

A Toronto native born in 1943, Cronenberg had an early interest in writing and science. One of his most mainstream films, "The Dead Zone," teamed him with a soul mate, horror writer Stephen King.

The soft-spoken Cronenberg, who is married with three children and a grandchild, and who says he rides a bike and takes out the trash, spoke with reporter Bonnie Britton last week about "A History of Violence," set in fictional Millbrook, Ind., but shot in Canada.
(Link to the rest of the article.)