But that's the thing about Kureishi: he has always performed in many dimensions (short stories, essays, screenplays), projecting a mischievous air of jeopardy and transgression.
And obviously, while the Serial team may not be dictating the terms of the screenplay, the projects are undeniably linked.
Consider using online industry marketplaces who provide electronic record of review by carefully screened companies who review new screenplays and projects in a protected database.
Mr. Hack wrote the screenplay, but the project did not get off the ground soon enough to beat "The Aviator".
Short-story writer Wells Tower is writing the screenplay for the project, which is being shopped to buyers at the Cannes film festival.
German film-maker Bernd Eichinger had been working on the screenplay for the project at the time of his death in January.
The Hollywood studio has recruited Britain's Joe Ahearne, who wrote Danny Boyle's heist thriller Trance, to work on the screenplay for the project.
Now, however, a new script has been commissioned from Scott Silver, the writer of The Fighter and 8 Mile, to replace the Max Borenstein screenplay from the project's first incarnation.
Stewart has also written the screenplay for the project, an adaptation of BBC reporter Maziar Bahari's New York Times bestselling memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival.
He's got a number of screenplays and TV projects in the works, and while savvy comedy fans on either side of the Atlantic keenly await his next move, the man himself still strives to be modest about his achievements.
