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Excuse me while I mop up my brains because my head just went kaboom. Jason Gray of Screen Daily broke word today that Franco-Vietnamese auteur Anh Hung Tran will adapt world-renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood for the big screen.

The movie Gods must be strict creationists. That would explain why the heady sci-fi works of Isaac Asimov have not translated well to the big screen. Sure his writing tends more towards grand ideas than epic scope, but there’s no excusing bastardizations like Bicentennial Man and I, Robot. Yet Hollywood continues trying to crack Asimov’s dystopian worlds. Next up? Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne will attempt an adaptation of perhaps his most non-cinematic work the Foundation trilogy.

CBGBs may have closed, but Joan Jett fans fear not. According to Variety, a biopic based on the rocker's first band The Runaways is now in development, with River Road Entertainment (Brokeback Mountain, Lust, Caution) financing.

Aronofsky has been trying to snare a big genre property for years, flirting with the Batman franchise, Lone Wolf and Cub, and most recently Watchmen among others. The project’s $100 million budget is far and away the most money the director has had to play with; it will be exciting to see what he’ll do with it. While the producers intend to make a film that mirrors the original in tone and feel; I expect it to be very gritty, with more practical effects and less camp comedy ala The Dark Knight – which made a little bit of money this summer if I recall.

If you are documentary film fan, and you had to pick just one, then a day like today would surely be an inconvenience.