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Rubin attempts 'Time Travel'

'Ghost' screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin is to adapt hit novel 'The Time Traveller's Wife' for the big screen.

Jan  3 2007

No sooner has the film version of the supposedly unfilmamble novel 'Perfume' hit screens than another equally challenging book is nearing production.

Audrey Niffenegger's 'The Time Traveller's Wife' is the sprawling account of a Chicago librarian's frequent trips back and forth through time, and Bruce Joel Rubin has been given the unenviable task of adapting it for the screen.

Time, place, age and circumstance change every couple of pages in the book, giving Schwentke a literary mountain to climb in terms of creating a coherent narrative for the script.

But the book is also a marvellously romantic fantasy, and as having previously written 'Ghost', we'd say that Rubin is the man for the job.

Robert Schwentke ('Flightplan') has already signed up to direct 'The Time Traveller's Wife', with Rachel McAdams currently in talks to star as the title character.

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