"If only" Hollywood would do this...
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I don't begrudge Dick all of his posthumous adaptations, but it would be great if, say, Theodore Sturgeon or Fritz Leiber got some love as well . . ..
Plus, where's that Stainless Steel Rat movie they've been talking about for years?
@Harvey you know that Duncan is planning to do "Mute" as a graphic novel before he films it? It was announced last week.
Which is why I made a point to say I was interested in seeing adaptations that showed actual fidelity to PK Dick's stories. In every example you've listed, save the aforementioned A Scanner Darkly, Dick's writing has been little more than a jumping-off point for the screenwriters to go in a completely different direction.
Total Recall was so far removed from the original short story that the credit doesn't say it was "based on" the short story. Rather, it was "inspired by" it. The same charge could be made against the other films you list, too.
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And I didn't know about the Mute graphic novel. I hope it doesn't mean a decade long delay like what happened to The Fountain.
I'm assuming "Mute" isn't based on the old Twilight Zone episode of the same name?
(By Matheson, of course.)
^ Yep. It's inspired by Blade Runner but completely original.
Plus, I wouldn't complain if they remade The Incredible Shrinking Man, Hell House, or Somewhere in Time just so I can put out some new movie tie-in editions of the original novels!
Maybe you can get the gig to novelize the LotR movies....
Oh well. There's always Real Steel at least.
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Well, I wish them well. Anything that keeps Matheson in the public eye and introduces him to a new generation of readers works for me.
(There's actually a good cover story on him, btw, in the new issue of FANGORIA magazine. And we're already getting more interview requests from other media as well.)
And, you know, his new book, Other Kingdoms, could make an interesting movie.
Number 4 was Live Free or Die Hard. The fifth film, Die Hard 24/7 (tentative) is in production.
I think he's being "ironic".
I would like to see Dune done as a two part movie, allowing for the novel to be adapted properly. I also would like a child actor to play Paul, closer to his correct age.
Well, it's hard to suggest original stuff since we haven't heard of it yet!
Plus, as discussed earlier, there are plenty of great books and authors that haven't gotten the Philip K. Dick treatment yet.
Like, say, Alfred Bester? The Demolished Man? The Stars My Destination?
I actually have an old paperback edition of The Demolished Man that says "Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture." This would been around around 1980 . . . so I've only been waiting for the movie for twenty-plus years!
Oh, that actually did come out - it went through one or two rewrites and they renamed it Demolition Man
I would love to see some Bester stuff adapted, though. Properly adapted anyway.