“Run Lola Run” director Tom Tykwer is a busy man these days. While pushing his action-thriller “The International” (which isn’t exactly being well received) he spoke of his current efforts to adapt David Mitchell’s novel “Cloud Atlas” with the Wachowski Brothers. But that may not be the next film he directs.
There’s apparently a whole lot of adapting going on, as Tykwer told Film School Rejects that he’s also working on an adaptation of McSweeney’s founder David Eggers’ “What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achek Deng.” Egger’s novel is a fictionalized account based on the real life of one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan, and the novel’s title sounds like a dope hip-hop album. There is our obligatory drop of the word dope for the day.
Anyone who has been in a Barnes and Noble knows that Eggers gained a world of buzz with his early memoir “The Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius” and gained even more in the movie world when he co-wrote “Where The Wild Things Are” with director Spike Jonze. It looks like moviegoers are going to become more familiar with his and Tykwer’s name.
