A Match Made in...Tralfamadore?

Interesting news that Charlie Kaufman writing screenplay for Del Toro to direct, re:  Kurt Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five--which, as you may recall, takes you from inside the firebombing of Dresden to the far reaches of sci-fi time and space.   I interviewed Vonnegut a couple of times in the 1970s after the first film of the book came out, directed by George Roy Hill, which received a mixed critical and audience reaction.  So it goes?