Director Stephen Daldry("Billy Elliot") is negotiating to take the helm of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Chabon, reports Variety.
The Paramount Pictures project deals with the birth of the comic book industry intertwined with the Jewish experience during World War II. Chabon wrote the adaptation.
Daldry is also attached to another prestigious book adaptation, the National Book Award-winning Jonathan Franzen novel "The Corrections." That film is being adapted by David Hare, who also wrote "The Hours."