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Philip K. Dick's Hollywood Afterlife

Posted by michael on from the read-the-books dept.

HarryLeBlanc writes "Wired has a long thoughtful article about Philip K Dick's posthumous Hollywood career. It has some interesting tidbits in it (imagine Total Recall directed by Cronenburg and starring William Hurt!), and does a good job of covering his Hollywood history (though it overlooks Barjo), and it doesn't gloss over how PKD would have hated what Hollywood has done to much of his work."

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  1. Total Recall by Lurth · · Score: 1, Funny

    Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall

    Speaks for itself
    1. Re:Total Recall by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or do the memories implanted in your mind say that it speaks for itself?

    2. Re:Total Recall by mcpkaaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you like adolescent fantasies that operate on the emotional level of Saturday morning cartoons and pretend to be almost pseudo-intellectual, yes, it does speak for itself.

      Translation: Commando rox0red Total Recall.

      some of us would have appreciated seeing the other possible version metioned

      Um..

      Probably those of us who look for something deeper in life than firefights

      Well..

      ...see relationships as being more complex than just pairing with a sex partner.

      You lost me.

      --
      It goes from God, to Jerry, to me.
  2. I've think... by EverDense · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should make a movie out of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
    Anyone second the motion?

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    http://jesus.everdense.com/
    1. Re:I've think... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, they could call it Blade Runner and have Harrison Ford star.

      Oh wait, they already did.

    2. Re:I've think... by JonKatzIsAnIdiot · · Score: 4, Funny

      "The perpetual rain, the near-deserted apartment blocks, the desperation to get away to the off-world colonies"

      Oohh - that's Vancouver.

  3. recent 'interview' with PKD at frontwheeldrive by quiddity · · Score: 2, Funny

    a good, fictitious, interview interview with Philip K Dick

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    . hmmm
  4. Re:On The Edge Of Blade Runner Quote by guybarr · · Score: 2, Funny


    Are you telling me that PKD didn't go to Heaven ?

    Of course he did. And didn't.

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    Working for necessity's mother.