Phoenix Pictures has Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City) setup to write and direct a feature film adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s science fiction novella ‘The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag’. This will be Proyas’ next project, receiving a budget of between $40-50 million, which he will begin working on once he finishes ‘Knowing’, his current film starring Nicolas Cage.

[Originally published in 1942, the offbeat tale centers on a man who becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes he cannot account for his activities during the day, or even what he does for a living. He divulges his problem to the husband-and-wife partners of a private detective agency, and their investigation leads to a series of revelations they could never have fathomed.] — Hollywood Reporter