Spirit Award-winner
Dee Rees (
Pariah) has been set to adapt
Martian Time-Slip,
Philip K. Dicks 1964 sci-fi novel centered on a schizophrenic
repairman living in a human colony on Mars. Rees will write the pic as a directorial
project for herself with Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of Philip K. Dick, producing for Electric Shepherd Productions. The shingle run by Dicks children previously produced 2011′s
The Adjustment Bureau and is in development on Disneys animated adaptation
King of the Elves, Michel Gondry-helmed
Ubik, and
Electric Ant to be directed by Marc Forster. Rees is repped by WME and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz. Victoria Cook negotiated the deal on Rees behalf with Christopher Tricarico repping the Dick estate and Electric Shepherd.