Zwigoff and Clowes will build "$40,000 Man" movie

Terry Zwigoff will rewrite and direct "The $40,000 Man" with Dan Clowes, with whom he collaborated on "Ghost World," according to an item in the Hollywood Reporter: Link. The tale centers on a famous American astronaut who is badly injured in a car wreck, and is then rebuilt by the government to be a "bionic man" — but on a skimpy budget of $40,000, he's one cheap cyborg. (thanks, Susannah Breslin!)