Fox Searchlight has picked up "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," a project based on the 1968 Tom Wolfe book. Gus Van Sant is directing.

"Kool-Aid" is Wolfe's account of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and a group dubbed the Merry Pranksters as they drive across the country in a DayGlo-painted school bus dubbed Furthur, reaching personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.