AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE (AMAZON)

AS SHE CLIMBED ACROSS THE TABLE (AMAZON)

Studio: Amazon Studios

Prod Co: Chernin Entertainment

Dates: TBD

Location: TBD

Budget: TBD

Execs: Executive: Kori Adelson, Jerome Hill

Studio Executive: Alan Khamoui

Source Material By: Jonathan Lethem

Director: Michel Gondry

Logline: Boy-meets-girl-meets-void. Alice is a physicist contemplating ending her relationship with fellow physicist Philip. Alice and her colleagues have created a black hole that they have taken to calling Lack. But Lack is a nullity with specific tastes. It absorbs a pomegranate, light bulbs, an argyle sock, yet it rejects a bow tie, an ice axe, and a scrambled egg. To Alice, this selectivity translates into an irresistible personality. To Philip, it makes Lack an unbeatable romantic rival, for how can he win Alice back from something that has no flaws-because it has no qualities?

Roles:

[PHILIP ENGSTRAND]
Lead Male
An anthropology professor at the University at Beauchamp who is known as the Dean of Interdiscipline for studying the relationships in academic environments. He strives to win back Alice's love after she becomes obsessed with Lack...

[ALICE COOMBS]
Lead Female
A physicist who tries to understand Lack as an intelligent being instead of a physics experiment...

[DOCTOR SOFT]
Supporting Male
Lack's creator. He allows Alice to take over research into Lack after she shows Lack has a preference for certain particles which he thought was impossible...

[GARTH POYS]
Supporting Male
A blind man who has blindsight. This allows him to get past the observer problem...

[EVAN ROBAR]
Supporting Unknown
Garth's friend who is also blind but amaurotic...

[CARMO BRAXIA]
Supporting Male
An Italian physicist who is interested in studying the physics behind Lack. He is the one who finally cracks the mystery...

[CYNTHIA JALTER]
Supporting Female
A therapist who studies coupling. She gets to know Philip through Evan and Garth whose relationship she is studying. She tries to help Philip understand that Alice no longer gives him the attention he needs because of lack and that she is bad for him...