It seems as if the producers of the currently-playing Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans enjoyed their trip through a noirish ether and are looking to make a return rather quickly. THR.com reports that Gabe and Alan Polsky have picked up the rights to Gun, With Occasional Music, by author Jonathan Lethem. The project is described as a mix of Raymond Chandler-style pulp detective fiction and
futurist theorizing, and follows an archetypal private eye
through Oakland and San Francisco as he delves into the murder of a
prominent urologist. Among Lethem’s inventions are super-smart
children called “baby-heads,” evolved animals and animal rights,
erotic nerve swapping, debit cards holding one’s karma and a
menacing kangaroo that works for the mob. That last sentence alone bears further investigation.
Gun has actually been optioned a couple of times before, once by Alan J. Pakula in the early ’90s and once by director Hampton Fancher (The Minus Man). Lethem is also known for other sci-fi works, in addition to Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, the former of which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. He is also an essayist and short story writer, with his most recent book being Chronic City. Meanwhile, the Polskys are also developing John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing and Christopher Buckley’s God Is My Broker.
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I'd see it. And whatever happened to Edward Norton's adaptation of 'Motherless Brooklyn'? Did he just let that one go? Is he still sitting on it? And if he's going to make it, could he please step out of the protagonist's role and hand it over to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, or some other interesting upcomer?
Levitt, are you kidding. The only person who could handle this is Ben Affleck.
Affleck? Are you serious? Gordon-Levitt is a great actor and would be wonderful in this part. Affleck can "handle this" as much as Tiger Woods can handle driving out of his own home.
The only thing Affleck can handle is a nice taco-flavored kiss
And by that I mean a handjob from an obese 4th grade boy
hahahahaha what the fuck
But it was really Mitch Connor all along!
Butcher's Crossing FTW. Read it, now.
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