Brave New Worlds: An Anthology of Dystopian Fiction – review
Attention short story admirers and science fiction lovers of all ages; have I got a book for you. Before I get to the details however, I think I should take a moment to illuminate the uniting thread between all the marvelous shorts, bound together in the pages of Brave New Worlds: An Anthology of Dystopian [...]
Kate Beckinsale Offered Total Recall, Eva Mendes and Rosario Dawson Next?
Deadline reported yesterday that Kate Beckinsale has been offered to the play the role that skyrocketed Sharon Stone into fame, Lori, in the remake of Total Recall. The character Lori, in the 1990 film, is the wife of character Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who turns out to be an agent sent to moniter Quaid. The [...]
Adjusting the Adjustment Bureau
When a movie could have been good, but wasn’t, it becomes an even worse movie experience than if there had been no expectation, no potential, for anything better. So it was with The Adjustment Bureau. This movie was like 30 Days of Night: it had everything going for it—unique premise, great cast, decent if not [...]
Michel Gondry Helming Philip K. Dick’s Ubik?
Michel Gondry, the director of The Green Hornet and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is looking to take Philip K. Dick’s 1966 novel, Ubik, to the big screen, according to io9’s translation of some news from the French site, Allocine, which reads: To celebrate the launch of The Factory Movie Lovers [an exhibit] at [...]
Colin Farrell offered Total Recall remake
Colin Farrell has officially been offered the lead role in the upcoming remake of Total Recall. Many of you will remember how BSC previously reported that he was the frontrunner for the part originated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. His competition was Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) and Tom Hardy (Inception). Now Variety reports that we’re one step [...]
Ridley Scott takes on PKD’s The Man in the High Castle
The genius behind 1982 movie Blade Runner , Ridley Scott, is to produce another Philip K Dick classic with The Man In The High Castle after a 28 year haitus. According to Deadline, Headline Pictures, Electric Sheperd Productions (Dick’s production company) and Scott’s own Scott Free Productions will come together to film the movie adaptation [...]
Emily Blunt and Matt Damon – PKD’s ‘Adjustment Bureau’ trailer
If it involves Philip K. Dick and blunts I’m all in, especially if it’s Emily Blunt (who was teh first actress offered the role of Black Widow in Iron Man 2). You add Matt Damon and a reunion with George Nolfi, who he collaborated with on The Bourne Ultimatum and Ocean’s Twelve (screenplay), and you [...]
Mackie joins Matt Damon, Emily Blunt in The Adjustment Bureau
In July, we reported Emily Blunt joining Matt Damon to co-star in The Adjustment Bureau, yet another film based on the work by the legendary Philip K. Dick. Now, Anthony Mackie has joined the cast. Mackie has most recently been in the Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (really want to see that!). He also portrayed [...]
Emily Blunt joins Matt Damon in PKD Inspired Adjustment Bureau
Based on the Philip K. Dick short story Adjustment Team, Adjustment Bureau is being directed by George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum, Ocean’s Twelve, The Sentinel) and has Matt Damon cast as the male lead. Now it has been announced that Emily Blunt will be playing opposite of Damon. The film synopsis as described by Variety [...]
PKD’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said next up for Halcyon
Halcyon has the first-look right to adapt material of the legendary SF writer Philip K. Dick. We all know that PKD’s material has been spun into films that reside on the entire spectrum of quality – from Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report, and now Halcyon has announced – from Cannes – that Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said will be the next project.
More info after the jump . . .
Book Review – Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960′s
Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Library of America Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: May 2007 To be fair and honest right from the outset I was pre-disposed to like this collection for at least two reasons. 1) I have been a fan of The Library of America for a number of years now. The books that [...]
