After years of false starts, it looks like The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, one of the most acclaimed books in recent memory, is finally going to hit screens.
Written by Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of two men who join the comic book industry during its golden age and many of the events in it are based on the lives of real-life industry figures, such as Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Bob Kane.
It also features many appearances by real-life historical figures such as Orson Welles and Salvador Dali.
The show is being developed as a limited series to air on Showtime and has been a long time in the making.
Since hitting bookstores in 2000, several attempts have been made to turn it into a film.
At one point Sydney Pollack was set to direct and actors such as Lude Law, Andrew Garfield, Toby McGuire, Ryan Gosling, and Natalie Portman all were rumored to be attached to star in it.
Chabon will be one of the writers and producers of the show. He is also currently one of the producers of the upcoming Star Trek: Picard on CBS All Access.
Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman, who’s work, for better or for worse, is already quite well known to the readers of this site, will serve as executive producers, but will seemingly not be involved in the writing of the limited series.
No word of when the show will begin airing.
