Ben Barna
June 18, 2008
J.J. Abrams, creator of "Lost", birth mother of "Felicity", is producing a new film adaptation of a Fifth Avenue apartment. The man knows no bounds. The film will be based on an article from the NY Times about the upper 5th Ave apartment, which was designed to feature Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions and mazes. The apartment, conceived by architectural wunderkind Eric Clough (“the sort of person who has a brainstorm on a daily basis”), features riddles and puzzles that are all part of a larger story meant to be solved by its inhabitants. He even got Jonathan Safran Foer to contribute to the apartment’s story. It’s all very Lemony Snickety, if you ask us. The last film Abrams produced was about a giant beast destroying Manhattan. Here he tackles an even bigger New York City nightmare: real estate.
