Will Smith taking Flowers For Algernon?

He's looking to star in and produce the sci-fi adaptation...

Nov 10th 2009 By James White

Will Smith is apparently looking to produce and star in an adaptation of Daniel Keyes' beloved SF novel Flowers For Algernon.

Keyes' book follows Charlie, a mentally impaired man who becomes the guinea pig for an experimental surgery to boost intelligence.

He's not the first test subject - the procedure is successfully used on Algernon, a lab mouse. But while Charlie's intelligence triples, he becomes estranged from those around him.

And then he discovers that the procedure has a serious downside...

The story has been adapted for the screen several times since its publication in 1959, most notably with 1969's Charly (above), which scored Cliff Robertson (Spider-Man's Uncle Ben) an Oscar for his performance.

Sounds like Smith might be after one of his own…

[Source: Pajiba]

Is this the right project for Smith? Can it match the '60s version?

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- BeefOven
  
  Nov 10th 2009, 14:39
  
  Will Smith, stop taking literary works of art and adding them to the CV of Hollywood's Biggest Mistake!
  
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