Spike Lee to adapt 'Time Traveler'

LOS ANGELES, June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. filmmaker Spike Lee reportedly has acquired the rights to the book "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality."

Variety.com said a big-screen adaptation of the book is being developed through Lee's Forty Acres & A Mule Filmworks production company.

Lee is co-writing the movie, based on the memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics and a man obsessed with creating a workable time machine. Bruce Henderson co-wrote the book.

Lee is planning to direct the film, as well as co-writing the screenplay for it, the entertainment industry trade paper said.