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A new Dick movie
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:30 pm
by Cail
Halcyon moves forward with 'Tears'
Halcyon toppers Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson have picked "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" as the debut project they will produce through their first-look deal with sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's estate.
Dick won the 1975 John W. Campbell award for best science-fiction book for his story about a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him. The book was set in a futuristic dystopian America that had become a police state following a second civil war.
Halcyon secured first-look rights to Dick's entire estate in 2007. Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Prods. — the production arm of Dick's estate — will develop the project with Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon will also produce.
Previous Philip K. Dick adaptations include Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" and Richard Linklater's "A Scanner Darkly."
No director or cast has been set yet.
"Flow My Tears...." is a fantastic book, but like most of Dick's work, I don't know how well it'll work onscreen. I'm excited to see what else they film, but I'm nervous about the result. I've not been happy with the vast majority of the movie adaptations.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:45 pm
by danlo
Thank gods this thread has nothing to do with Harry Reems or Ron Jeremy!
Kill me but I liked Minority Report, Screamers and Imposter.
Very cool, very cool story, no Keanu, no Keanu (no AFLAC either!)!!! I just came back from a used book store where this guy had just gotten in 7 mint condition original Dick paperbacks. He said they are incredibly hard to find:
Zap Gun
Martian Time Slip
Man in the High Castle
Radio Free Albemuth
Dues Irae
Ubik
and The Clans of the Alphane Moon
...man I was an idiot not to snatch them all up in one fell swoop (I can go back, if anyone's interested
)
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 5:57 pm
by Cail
Imposter wasn't bad, Minority Report took a fair amount of liberty with the story but was enjoyable, and Screamers kicked ass for a low-budget movie. Paycheck was awful, as was Next and Total Recall. Blade Runner was an OK movie, but bears little resemblance to the book.
Ubik is listed as "in development", but I can't see how they'd ever film it.
Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:26 pm
by danlo
I can't either. I think Imposter did the most justice to Dick's "cold war angst" philosophy even though there was a weird ambiguity about a third of the way through...Dicks main characters were, on the whole, kind of an "everyman" Sinise fits that role perfectly.
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:54 pm
by The Dreaming
I'd like to see someone try Ubik. Honestly, even a Veerhoven treatment would be at least interesting with all that craziness to inspire.
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 1:26 pm
by Cail
Well, they said that Naked Lunch was unfilmable, and that actually turned out pretty well.