Timmy Walks Into the Sea

Now that all of the ridiculous fake controversies have completely slid off of Timothée Chalamet and everyone has become sane and sober and fallen back in love with him (lol) I'm glad we're getting news on what our boy (if no one else's) is up to next -- besides Dune Part Three of course, which dropped its new trailer earlier this week. Although he's not attached to star yet Chalamet has signed on to produce an adaptation of the 2024 book Playground by Richard Powers, which has to do with A.I. and Climate Change and floating cities and I don't even know, it sounds like a lot. Obviously I haven't read it. Have you? 

Anyway Deadline says that he's got first option to star so don't be surprised if this is his next project -- besides the third Dune and the probable Wonka sequel our Forever Elio doesn't have any projects announced. I wonder if he was holding off for the Oscar win that didn't happen to push up his price? Oh well he's still a big star, thankfully! Says me! I'll share the plot synopsis after the jump and you can tell me if it makes any sense to you...

"Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can."