Well, that didn't take long.

Screenwriter Shane Salerno just announced that he hopes to premiere his just-finished documentary about J.D. Salinger at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Salinger is based on a 1999 biography of the same name by Paul Alexander.

Salerno, who's currently writing a script for a remake of Fantastic Voyage for Avatar director James Cameron, doesn't particularly seem like the literary type -- his previous work includes scripts for Armageddon and Shaft. But AP reports that he has been working on the documentary for five years, interviewing more than 150 Salinger friends and colleagues as well as artists who have been influenced by him.

Salerno, 37, does have some documentary chops: He made his first documentary, Sundown: The Future of Children and Drugs, when he was a high school senior.

The Salinger film reportedly includes both publishing anecdotes (Salinger once stopped speaking to a New Yorker editor who added a comma to one of his stories) and dish about his private life, including his affair with Oona O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill's daughter and later Charlie Chaplin's wife. 

Salerno's grail was, of course, an interview with Salinger himself, but he's not saying whether he ever got one. He is holding out five minutes of the version of the film being screened for a few reporters, for "security reasons."

Whatever else he's got, he's got good marketing instincts. I just hope this doesn't end up making Andy Borowitz's spoof on the Borowitz Report a reality. With the headline "Hollywood Eager to Finally F--- Up 'Catcher in the Rye,'" the item included this:

"But of all the potential bidders hoping to desecrate Catcher in the Rye, Avatar director James Cameron may have the inside track.

“'I loved this book as a boy and I’m not going to change a thing,' Mr. Cameron said, '“except for adding blue space-cats.'”