Gary Shteyngart is headed for the small screen, and Ben Stiller is leading the charge. Stiller is producing a television adaptation of Shteyngart’s 2010 novel, Super Sad True Love Story, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Super Sad True Love Story is set a near-future dystopia of materialism and political repression, but the focus is on a Russian-born Jewish man and his infatuation with a Korean-American young woman. The book is Shteyngart’s most recent novel—he’s since published Little Failure, a memoir (also about a Russian-born Jewish man who eventually falls in love with a Korean-American woman).