'Green Hornet' Director Michel Gondry to Take on Nutty Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Novel 'Ubik'

My girlfriend had a job last year that afforded her a lot of time to plow through her reading list. In her peak times, she'd plow through a book in a few days or so. One of the books she read during that time was Philip K. Dick's "Ubik," and every single thing she told me about it sounded absolutely insane, a sort of constantly unfolding trip through the subconscious.

If there's one modern director capable of translating that sort of fluid, stream-of-consciousness storytelling, it'd be Michel Gondry.

Though his latest film, "The Green Hornet," was fairly straightforward if gleefully silly, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep" showed he had no trouble interpreting the way our minds work.

Gondry, however, isn't going right to work on the adaptation. First he has another, yet untitled film. He gave the French website Allocine, which also broke the "Ubik" story, the scoop. Roughly translates, it reads: “A group of children are on a bus going on a field trip, and such are the events that by the time they arrive, there are only two pupils left.”

Could be another "Flightplan"-esque thriller, but in Gondry's hands, it'll more likely be something a little stranger, a little less explicable.

Philip K. Dick has proven a gold mine for film adaptations.

Most famously, Ridley Scott turned "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" into his legendary "Blade Runner," but we've also seen work as exciting as "Minority Report" or "A Scanner Darkly" and as dispiriting as "Paycheck" or "Next" come from his novels. In March, the latest Dick adaptation, "The Adjustment Bureau," will hit theaters.