Charlie Kaufman Got Himself A Debut NOVEL. Prepare For Mind-Warp.
I wasn’t expecting this. Charlie Kaufman, the mind behind Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Being John… and others is dropping a novel on our asses. Prepare for the META-BOMB, a tool of destruction that Kaufman wields with aplomb.
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If you need your fix of the existential stylings of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Synecdoche, New York” filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, you may still be waiting a little while for his movie-musical “Frank or Francis.” Luckily, there’s another project on the horizon that should more than grab your attention.
According to Deadline, Kaufman has just closed the deal for his first novel under Grand Central Publishing, with the plotline being kept under wraps. We imagine it’s going to be as bonkers and enlightening as any one of the films that he’s written or directed, and could possibly even be a book commenting on the writing of a book by somebody writing a book, or something like that. Kaufman is tackling the novel even as he continues to develop the script to “Frank or Francis” for himself to direct, which is a musical Hollywood satire where a benevolent film director feuds with an online critic blogger, which is supposedly his comment on “online film criticism.” Nic Cage, Steve Carell, Elizabeth Banks, Catherine Keener, Jack Black, Kevin Kline and Paul Reubens are all circling around that project, but we’ll have to wait and see when it rolls in front of cameras.
The filmmaker, who won an Oscar for co-writing “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth, is a hotly-debated screenwriter who’s come up with more aces than anything in his long career.
Even though Charlie Kaufman and me haven’t really been tight since he dropped Eternal Sunshine way back in the day, I still love the guy. I mean, fuck. That movie is one of my all-tie favorites. So I’ll let the guy dally around, experimenting and fidgeting about. As far as his various experiments go, this one has my attention the most. A novel? Fuck yeah.