Pariah director Dee Rees has been tapped to adapt Martian Time-Slip , based on Philip K. Dick's 1964 sci-fi novel about a schizophrenic repairman living in a human colony on Mars.

Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip

Deadline reports that Rees will also pen the screenplay, with Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, producing for Electric Shepherd Productions.The production company, run by Dick's children, previously produced The Adjustment Bureau and is also in development on Disney's animated adaptation of The King of the Elves.

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