Michel Gondry to adapt Philip K. Dick's novel, Ubik

The Adjustment Bureau, based on famed science fiction icon Philip K. Dick's story 'Adjustment Team' will be out in theaters in the coming weeks, and I hope everybody who saw the Super Bowl spot for it checks the movie out. It's really something special.  Dick's work has been adapted many times before, some for the good(Blade Runner, Total Recall) and some not so much(Paycheck, Next). Michel Gondry(Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Green Hornet) is hoping his shot at adapting a Dick novel is one of the former.

The Playlist reports Gondry is currently adapting Ubik, Dick's 1969 sci-fi novel with a plot that I'm struggling to condense(typical for one of his works), but let's just say it's about a guy who works for a corporation that hires people with the ability to block telepathic probes.  They take on a job which sends them to the Moon, and all heck breaks loose. 

In 2005, TIME Magazine named Ubik one of the 100 greatest English-language novels since 1923.  An adaptation has been attempted before, with Dick actually writing the screenplay himself back in 1974. The film was never shot, and the screenplay was eventually published in 1985 as Ubik: The Screenplay. Most recently in 2008, Celluloid Dreams optioned the rights to Ubik, but as of now nothing has been heard of it since. So it's unclear whether or not Gondry gained control. I'm sure we'll find out soon.