Variety reports that two books will be making their way to the big screen some time in the not-too-distant future.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is already in production, while the film rights to The Yiddish Policemen's Union have just been bought by and .
This is almost certainly good news for fans of both Chabon and the Coen brothers: the Coens' dark and quirky touch should be ideally suited to Chabon's noirish alternative-history tale of an alcoholic detective who sets out to solve a murder in an Alaska that, after the Second World War, has been turned into a settlement for Jewish refugees.
, who produced the Coens' adaptation of 's No Country for Old Men (as well as an adaptation of Chabon's Wonder Boys), will produce The Yiddish Policemen's Union as well.
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