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I've got to wonder what Phil would have thought about all this. I don't think he'd have been altogether surprised.

Creeps me out, though.

Thoughts?

I hope hollywood doesn't screw this up like every other Phillip K. Dick adaptation other than Blade Runner. Keanu Reeves involvement in the project seems like a bad sign from the start.

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I've got to wonder what Phil would have thought about all this. I don't think he'd have been altogether surprised.

Creeps me out, though.

Thoughts?

Hey if Tupac can do stuff dead so can everybody else.

I hope hollywood doesn't screw this up like every other Phillip K. Dick adaptation other than Blade Runner. Keanu Reeves involvement in the project seems like a bad sign from the start.

Actually, the best adaptation (i.e., most "faithful", IMO) is the short-format version of 'Impostor', available as a special feature on the 'Impostor' DVD. This was the short film used to sell the studio on producing the bigger, theatrical version (which kinda sucked, admittedly - due mostly to a meandering script). The shorter version basically serves up the story as it was written - and it works better than most of the other dreck (Total Recall, Screamers, Paycheque) that Hollywood has served up from Dick's brilliant body of work.

That being said, I'd still love seeing a big-screen treatment (sans Misters Speilberg and Cruise, thanks) of 'The Simulacrum'. With a cast of unknowns. And an untried director. With a limited budget. And as little screenplay-by-committee as (in?)humanly possible.

Bump. Or was it, really? Provided it thought of itself as a bump, was it not always thus?

What makes a bump? What makes a man? Who is eating this chicken?

Wh - BUMP

Actually, the best adaptation (i.e., most "faithful", IMO) is the short-format version of 'Impostor', available as a special feature on the 'Impostor' DVD. This was the short film used to sell the studio on producing the bigger, theatrical version (which kinda sucked, admittedly - due mostly to a meandering script). The shorter version basically serves up the story as it was written - and it works better than most of the other dreck (Total Recall, Screamers, Paycheque) that Hollywood has served up from Dick's brilliant body of work.

That being said, I'd still love seeing a big-screen treatment (sans Misters Speilberg and Cruise, thanks) of 'The Simulacrum'. With a cast of unknowns. And an untried director. With a limited budget. And as little screenplay-by-committee as (in?)humanly possible.
I was kind of hoping that someone would do Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, but the latter would probably be impossible. The line between what's actually happening and what's going on in the character's heads is too blurry for it to work on film I think.

I hope hollywood doesn't screw this up like every other Phillip K. Dick adaptation other than Blade Runner. Keanu Reeves involvement in the project seems like a bad sign from the start.
THe only movie Jeanu Reeves should ever do is if they make a movie based on Guild Wars, Keanu and Mhenlo look exactly alike

Tupac talks from the dead, too. In fact, he still makes albums from the grave.

I was kind of hoping that someone would do Ubik or The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich, but the latter would probably be impossible. The line between what's actually happening and what's going on in the character's heads is too blurry for it to work on film I think.

Martian Time-Slip as a made-for-cable production. Ditto Dr. Bloodmoney. I'd like to see the bulk of his short fiction serialized, perhaps as animation - in order to introduce a wider range of people to the prevalent themes found PKD's body of work.

I'll agree about Ubik, but Eldrich would be tough given the obvious limitations. Some interactive form of media, perhaps.

But then again, there's something to be said for the merits of the print medium. Maybe some things really are better left alone.

I hope hollywood doesn't screw this up like every other Phillip K. Dick adaptation other than Blade Runner. Keanu Reeves involvement in the project seems like a bad sign from the start.

Deewd. I'm Neo.

Deewd. I'm Neo.
"Whoa, I know kung fu" has got to be one of the worst movie lines ever.

Hey Dobbs, it's good to know we can agree on some things.

"Whoa, I know kung fu" has got to be one of the worst movie lines ever.

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