Besides Cronenberg...
Who else would you have wanted to direct an adaptation of Naked Lunch? I'm not saying that Cronenberg isn't a capable director or anything, I'm just asking who else would be brave enough to tackle the job. In my opinion, I think if given the chance, Takashi Miike would be an excellent choice. If you have seen some of his work (Ichi the Killer, Izo, Gozu, Visitor Q, Audtion, etc.), you can see that he can be the right man for the job on coming up with a "proper adaptation" of the book. Another one I see as a great choice would be Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Holy Mountain and El Topo alone shows how well he can handle Naked Lunch's content. He might even get a sort of connection with William S. Burroughs because of what he went through while writing the book, like that of how Jodorowsky went through drug use during production of Holy Mountain.
So yeah, who else do you think would have the balls for it?