id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-221 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Wikipedia .html text/html 4467 432 77 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a 2000 novel by American author Michael Chabon that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001. Producer Scott Rudin, who had worked with Chabon in the early nineties on The Gentlemen Host, wrote a screenplay that as of 2013 remains unfilmed, bought the screen rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Paramount Pictures based on a one-and-a-half page pitch before the novel had been published.[7] (Rudin was involved with the novel so early on that his name appears in the acknowledgements to its first edition.) After the book was published, Rudin hired Chabon to write the screen adaptation. In November of that same year, though, director Stephen Daldry announced in The New York Times that he planned to direct the film "next year."[10] In January 2005, Chabon posted on his web site that, "about a month ago, there was a very brief buzzing, as of a fruit fly, around the film version of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-221.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-221.txt