As She Climbed Across the Table will mark the third adaptation of one Lethem’s bibliography after the Paul Dano-led Light and the Sufferer in 2007 and the Edward Norton written/directed/produced/starring adaptation of the neo-noir crime thriller Motherless Brooklyn.
After helming a good portion of the short-lived but acclaimed Jim Carrey-starring Kidding at Showtime, Michel Gondry is getting back behind the camera in the film world for an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s As She Climbed Across the Table at Amazon Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
It absorbs a pomegranate and light bulbs, while refusing a bow tie, an ice axe and a scrambled duck egg.