Christopher Priest's 1996 novel, The Prestige, is in film production with Christian Bale, David Bowie, Michael Caine, Hugh Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson in the cast. Bowie will play Nicholas Tesla, who claimed—in addition to his legitimate scientific and practical work—to have been contacted by aliens. Bowie played an alien in the 1976 movie The Man Who fell to Earth, based on a book by Walter Tevis.