You might think JJ Abrams had enough to do with the various producing projects he's taken on, not to mention overseeing development of the Star Trek sequel. But apparently sleep is something that happens to other people, since he's also busy buying the rights to adapt Colum McCann's novel Let The Great World Spin.
The book - which nabbed the National Book Award in the US - is a sprawling period piece about various characters struggling through '70s New York.
And it's built around Philippe Petit's real-life 1974 high wire act that saw him tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre, as seen in ace documentary Man On Wire.
Abrams will produce any eventual film, with McCann drafted in to write the screenplay. He'll need to condense a load of storylines, including a young Irish monk living among prostitutes, a group of mothers mourning their sons who died in Vietnam, and a 38-year-old grandmother walking the streets with her teenage daughter.
It doesn't sound like the usual sort of geek-friendly material that Abrams has become known for, but then he's been spreading his net a little further these days...