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Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick
bowman9991 writes "Even after Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck, Impostor, and Next, it appears Hollywood's lust for movies based on Philip K. Dick material continues. The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and Terence Stamp, is the latest, and features some classic Dick themes, including the fragile nature of reality and a fight against a world controlled and manipulated by powerful unseen entities. When Congressman David Norris meets the love of his life after a political defeat, he must peel back the layers of reality to discover why a mysterious group is so desperate to make sure they never meet again. He is up against the agents of fate itself — the men of The Adjustment Bureau. The Adjustment Bureau adaptation follows news that Terry Gilliam will adapt Dick's novel The World Jones Made, that Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and Ubik are being adapted, and that a remake of Total Recall is being developed by the ironically named Original Films Studio."
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Basically, if you only know the stuff that's been made into movies, then you don't know Dick.
But at least it'll have some nifty animation in the middle involving aliens and some effeminate guy saying "you lucky bastard", and maybe a cameo role as a deaf/mute/hunchback type person.
Stopped reading at "classic Dick themes" but I'm pretty sure this article is for perverts..
(sorry I just couldn't miss this opportunity)
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PKD may be dead but the meme lives on
Are you insinuating that I'm a "Dick" head?
Considering that old franchises like The Lord of the Rings and even Sherlock Holmes are still making money for their rights holders thanks to copyright extensions,
Sherlock Holmes? Wasn't he pre-Disney?
Yeah, we here at /. were into Dick before he sold out, and only like, 30 people or something had read his books.
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Baxter? Are you kidding? He spends 3 pages describing how to take a shit in an Apollo capsule.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Hollywood craves Dick
Not as bad as Andy McNab. A chapter and a half of a guy sitting in a bush, shitting in a plastic bag. Thrilling stuff.
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Then we can look forward to a movie 10 years late, substantially overbudget, yet still looks half-done.
Well, not everyone can compete with the polished perfection of Michael Bay movies.
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> but nowadays studios want films to appeal to as broad an audience as possible.
So let's make a romantic comedy in a hard sci-fi cyberpunk plot/setting.
I think I've killed a kitten.
So you're saying he died in 1982, then he sold out on all those movies that were done later? Come to think of it, that sounds like a Philip K. Dick idea.
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So what you're saying is that Disney made Turing complete?
Stopped reading at "classic Dick themes" but I'm pretty sure this article is for perverts..
Well... it's for Dick-lovers, anyway.
I fail to see how any of those movies "look half done."
Really?
The Gilliam movies I've seen are Time Bandidts,
They didn't even hire a real minotaur! And the only reason it starred midgets is because actors were paid by the foot back then.
Twelve Monkeys
Yeah someone really dropped the ball in the animal department. I think there was, at most, one monkey in this movie. This one wasn't even half done!
and Brazil
And there's even less Brazil in Brazil than there were monkeys in Twelve Monkeys.
What a hack!
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