Hollywood's Growing Obsession With Philip K. Dick 244
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."
Hollywood's growing obsession with dick (Score:1, Funny)
Slashdot's gotten NSFW.
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:5, Funny)
Re:awesome (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:1, Funny)
Stopped reading at "classic Dick themes" but I'm pretty sure this article is for perverts..
Newsline - Hollywood Loves Dick (Score:4, Funny)
(sorry I just couldn't miss this opportunity)
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:4, Funny)
PKD may be dead but the meme lives on [slashdot.org]
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:5, Funny)
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?
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, we here at /. were into Dick before he sold out, and only like, 30 people or something had read his books.
Re:Some of P. K. Dick's stuff is great, but how ab (Score:3, Funny)
Baxter? Are you kidding? He spends 3 pages describing how to take a shit in an Apollo capsule.
Re:Better headline (Score:1, Funny)
Hollywood craves Dick
Re:Some of P. K. Dick's stuff is great, but how ab (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Does this mean we can call any PKD-based movie... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:awesome (Score:4, Funny)
Well, not everyone can compete with the polished perfection of Michael Bay movies.
Re:Some of P. K. Dick's stuff is great, but how ab (Score:1, Funny)
> 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.
Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score:1, Funny)
Stopped reading at "classic Dick themes" but I'm pretty sure this article is for perverts..
Well... it's for Dick-lovers, anyway.
Re:awesome (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Total Recall... or We Can Remember It For You (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Boobs.