Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Gun, With Occasional Music

12/4/09 - The Hollywood Reporter reported that Gabe and Alan Polsky have optioned the film rights to Jonathan Lethem's sci-fi noir hybrid, Gun, With Occasional Music. Originally published by Harcourt Brace in 1994, the book has drawn interest from filmmakers for more than a decade.  With a mix of Raymond Chandler-style pulp detective fiction and futurist theorizing, Music 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.

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