MRC joins 'As She Climbed' team

Media Privileges Capital has became a member of Film Rites' Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch to create Jonathan Lethem's 1997 novel "As She Rose Over The Table," that has David Cronenberg mounted on direct and Bruce Wagner adapting.A repetition for MRC confirmed the confirmed the company's seriously board "As She Rose Over the Table" but had no comment if the project will participate MRC's five-year output cope with Universal. MRC's funded "The Adjustment Bureau," "Elysium" and "half an hour Or Less."Cronenberg's in publish-production on "Cosmopolis" with Colin Farrell and Marion Cotillard. He also helmed "A Harmful Method" starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley.Film Rituals is within publish on "The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo" and "The Cold Light of Day" and Zaillian's a author on "Moneyball." Wagner was the executive producer and co-author of Tracey Ullman's "Condition from the Union" series on Showtime and modified his novel "Still Holding" for Epix.Lethem's other books include "Gun with Periodic Music," "Chronic City" and "Motherless Brooklyn."Cronenberg is repped by WME and Sentient Entertainment. Lethem and Zaillian are repped by WME. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com