Ben Stiller is developing a TV series based on Gary Shteyngart's best-selling novel "Super Sad True Love Story". The comedian/actor is reportedly teaming up with Karl Gajdusek and Media Rights Capital for the small-screen project, AceShowbiz reports.

The offbeat 2010 novel is set in a near-future dystopian New York and centers on the relationship between a bookish man stuck in a tech-obsessed society and a complex, materialistic young Korean-American woman. While navigating this romance, he must also contend with mounting demands from his charismatic boss, who is himself being pressured by the domineering American government.

Shteyngar and Karl Gajdusek ("Last Resort", Dead Like Me), who co-created the TV adaptation, will co-write the script and serve as executive producers. Stiller, meanwhile, is on board to direct multiple episodes.

MRC, the company behind Netflix's "House of Cards", is currently searching for actors before shopping the one-hour dramedy to networks.