As She Climbed Across the Table | Michel Gondry

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Michel Gondry has come aboard to direct As She Climbed Across the Table, an adaptation of the Jonathan Lethem novel being made by Amazon Studios and Chernin Entertainment.

Joe Penhall, the creator of Netflix’s crime drama Mindhunters, will write the script for the romantic sci-fi tale, with Chernin producing. Raffi Adlan will executive produce.

The novel revolves around a love triangle that consists of a man, a woman, and, wait for it, a black hole. Mixing physics, alternate realities, and ideas of scientific objectivity with the quirkiness and obsessive nature of love, Table tells of a scientist Alice who, along with her colleagued, have created a black hole that they name Lack. Lack is a very selective about what it sucks into its void, accepting some objects, rejecting others. To Alice, this selectivity translates into an irresistible personality. To Phillip, Alice’s ex-boyfriend, the void becomes a rival lover, spurring on feeling of intense jealousy as he embarks on a nigh-impossible, and multi-universal, quest to win her back.

The book was first published by Doubleday in 1997. Letham, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, is known for his novels such as Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. [+]