Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed

bowman9991 writes "Could this be the new Blade Runner? SFFMedia reports that Celluloid Dreams has obtained the movie rights to Philip K. Dick's science fiction masterpiece 'Ubik.' First published in 1969, Ubik's central character is Joe Chip, a technician for a telepathic organization that employs people with the ability to block certain psychic powers so they can secure other people's privacy. In the novel, the dead are kept in 'half-life,' a form of cryogenic suspension, with limited consciousness and communication ability. A mystical substance called Ubik, available in spray-can form, is the only thing stopping reality from disintegrating before Joe's eyes. It'll be hard to film, but fantastic if they get it right!"

Comments

Uhmm... quid pro quo..addendum.

[tetrahedrassface]

Ubik? WTF is Ubik?

Re:almost impossible to film

[Mike Van Pelt]

I've read "Ubik". It's hard to fully express how much I hated this book. He pretty much wrapped the whole thing up with "It was all a dream." Actually, everything from the explosion to the end was the dying hallucinations of the point-of-view character. Nothing ever mattered, nothing was ever real, ha ha ha, you who were trying to make sense of it, I sure fooled you.

Some people are very fond of this sort of thing. I, emphatically, am not.

I expect to stay far, far away from the movie.

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Re:To recreate Blade Runner...

[rossz]

Let's not forget to hope the screenplay writer pretty much ignores the book and goes off on his own like they did with Blade Runner.

I never did understand why anyone liked PHD. He had some cool ideas, but I think his writing is shite.