GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC Gets Screenwriter

Last month I shared with you an info about the adaptation project GUN, WITH OCCASIONAL MUSIC. Producers of Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans have bought the screen rights to the cult sci-fi noir novel by Jonathan Lethem, published by Harcourt Brace in 1994. What’s awesome is the character in the far right, the menacing kangaroo that works for the mob..look at him drinkin’ some, smokin’ some, chillin’ like he just don’t care. Hollywood Reporter says, scribe Javier Rodriguez has been hired to write the screenplay…

Here’s the official synopsis of the book…
From the celebrated author of Motherless Brooklyn, a wry, satiric parable of a hardboiled man out of time Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems-not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail.
Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all the rage. In this brave new world, Metcalf has been shadowing the wife of an affluent doctor, perhaps falling a little in love with her at the same time. But when the
doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in the crossfire in a futuristic world that is both funny-and not so funny.