Peter Bogdanovich will write and direct an adaptation of Kurt Andersen's 1999 novel "
Turn of the Century" for Das Films. Bogdanovich's writing partner Parish Rahbar will co-write the screenplay.
The novel, which opens in early new-millennium 2000, follows the MacTiers, a Manhattan power couple with three kids who are managing their troubled marriage in a world where BarbieWorld has opened in Vegas and Charles Manson's parole hearing is live on TV.