A while ago (I just checked... 5 years!) there was talk that Charlie would be co-producing a TV series for FX (and later AMC) based on the Grady Hendrix novel Horrorstör. Alas, Deadline now reports that New Republic Pictures has optioned the book for a film adaptation.

Formerly set up as a television series with Charlie Kaufman, Gail Berman and Josh Schwartz producing at Fox and then at AMC, Horrorstör is now going the feature route with Hendrix adapting his own material for the first time.

The book is set at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio where morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking. To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift with plans to patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination. (Source)

Bummer! For Charlie's fans, at least.