Gilliam adapts Auster

American novelist Paul Auster has written a number of screenplays but he has not adapted one of his strongest novels that seem perfect for the big screen. So Terry Gilliam is doing the job for him, The Independent reports.

Collecting a filmmaker's tribute award at the Marrakech Film Festival, Gilliam said his next project is to adapt Mr Vertigo, a quest story revolving around a young orphan boy from St Louis who chances upon an elderly, mysterious stranger, Master Yehudi, who trains him to fly, and they become their own kind of travelling circus show across America.