Michel Gondry Helming Philip K. Dick’s Ubik?

Michel Gondry, the director of The Green Hornet and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is looking to take Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novel, Ubik, to the big screen, according to io9’s translation of some news from the French site, Allocine, which reads:

To celebrate the launch of The Factory Movie Lovers [an exhibit] at the Centre Pompidou, [Paris], Michel Gondry has revealed he was currently working on an adaptation of Ubik, novel written by Philip K. Dick in 1966.

His Green Hornet continues on its merry way through the halls, but Michel Gondry is not resting so far and today launches its plant amateur films, exposure like no other and in line with its feature films, held Centre Pompidou until March 7. And after? … The director has revealed he was currently working on a major project: the adaptation of Ubik, written by Philip K. Dick in 1966. If the film version of the letter follows the novel that inspired it, it will be about a man, unable to determine whether he is alive or dead after an explosion, which sees the world disintegrate before his eyes.

The novel, which was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest English-language novels of our time, follows a man named Joe Chip who works for an anti-psi security firm that blocks telepathic spying and other paranormal tricks. An assignment on the Moon doesn’t go as planned, resulting in Joe becoming involved in a mystery that involves time-slips and a cure-all known as Ubik.

Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch are producing the film through their Film Rites production company alongside Steve Golin and Anonymous Content.