should Pilip K. Dick books be adapted into film?

not that its going to happen, but i actually wouldnt mind richard linklater doing a rotoscoped film version..

  On 2/17/2011 at 8:27 PM, Billov said:

Gondry directing Ubik? Cool, was thinking of reading it. Any good??

UBIK is my favorite PKD book. It's really accessible and has a very visual story that should translate well to film. I hope.

a scanner darkly was my favorite of his, until I read VALIS.

A faithful, and artfully done VALIS would be amazing. I have no faith it can be done though.

I enjoyed ASD the movie.

first trailer for Radio Free Albemuth, holy camcorders it's amateurtastic! maybe Alanis gets naked.

http://io9.com/#!5773699/first-trailer-for-philip-k-dicks-radio-free-albemuth-with-alanis-morissette

oooh fuckin hell that looks awful!

and not a good choice for an adaptation, the book is fun for PKD fans but it is the version of VALIS that got rejected by his publishers....

WHAT THE FUCK IS CHARLIE KAUFMAN DOING RIGHT NOW?!?!?!?!

HE SHOULD BE MAKING VALIS!!!!!

asketh and ye shall receiveth, Kaufman's next is not VALIS unfortunately but he Jonze are back together: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48693

Hey Malkovich, think fast!

-PKD

  On 3/2/2011 at 1:51 AM, Rubin Farr said:

first trailer for Radio Free Albemuth, holy camcorders it's amateurtastic! maybe Alanis gets naked.

 

http://io9.com/#!5773699/first-trailer-for-philip-k-dicks-radio-free-albemuth-with-alanis-morissette

ouch, that looks horrible

GET TO DA CHOPPA

START DA REAKTA

Needs to be repeated, though: maybe Alanis gets naked.

so?

  On 2/17/2011 at 4:21 PM, halisray said:

He wrote Blade Runner? wow I did not know that.

that's ok. we'll remember it for you wholesale

looks terrible. although the trailer is terribly edited as well, so it could really make it look shittier than it is. probably still extremely shitty though. straight to dvd?

straight to recycle bin?

  On 3/2/2011 at 7:35 PM, baph said:

Needs to be repeated, though: maybe Alanis gets naked.

grossfest ..

err, how, i mean who is Pilip K. Dick?

  On 3/2/2011 at 7:35 PM, baph said:

Needs to be repeated, though: maybe Alanis gets naked.

  On 3/2/2011 at 7:58 PM, GORDO said:

so?

The Adjustment Bureau is yet another example of Hollywood raping the works of PKD...so homogenized and family friendly, I actually enjoyed the chemistry between Emily Blunt and Damon but the film is pretty much nothing like PKD's short story that they based it on (nothing new there)and is just a rip off of MIB, Fringe's observers, and Dark City....no PKD to be found. Was like watching an episode of Quantum Leap, but without the cool/cheesey 80's vibe.

5/10 for Emily Blunt being cute.

bummer, the promotional pictures didn't seem to have any style to them. But i was still hoping. ar well.

  On 3/5/2011 at 3:21 AM, Atop said:

The Adjustment Bureau is yet another example of Hollywood raping the works of PKD...so homogenized and family friendly, I actually enjoyed the chemistry between Emily Blunt and Damon but the film is pretty much nothing like PKD's short story that they based it on (nothing new there)and is just a rip off of MIB, Fringe's observers, and Dark City....no PKD to be found. Was like watching an episode of Quantum Leap, but without the cool/cheesey 80's vibe.

 

5/10 for Emily Blunt being cute.

when i read it had romantic comedy elements, i did a straight WTFFFFFFF?

yeah, it was so tame it hurt....was a total date flick, melodramatic/romantic overdose. Yuck. :sadfrog:

Every PKD script always ends up in Hollywood as some sort of weird design-by-commitee movie, except perhaps Blade Runner, which kinda ended up like that (read "Future Noir" bitches), but the artisans doing the pushing/pulling were all too fucking good to fuck it up.

  On 3/5/2011 at 5:24 AM, Atop said:

yeah, it was so tame it hurt....was a total date flick, melodramatic/romantic overdose. Yuck. :sadfrog:

Hm, I was hoping from the promotional material that it was being sold to a different audience, but that it would still have paranoid-sci-fi down there. Of course, I knew it was a fruitless hope.

The sci fi was so toned down the it wasn't sci fi any longer but some silhouette of it.