Related Sections: Books Movies News
PKD's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said heads to screen
Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-chief executives Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to SF author Philip K. Dick's estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, Tears is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find no one has ever heard of him.
Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of the Dick estate, will develop the work alongside Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon also will produce.
Dick's works have served as the basis for such movies as Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly, which together have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide.
By IsoTek at 4:25 PM ON 05/12/09
Well, alright.
By Token at 3:11 PM ON 05/14/09
I've seen Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report, but I've found the books don't resemble the movies at all and are pretty much unreadable. Will this movie 'adaptation' be any different?
By sithpriest at 10:40 AM ON 05/19/09
God, I hope not. PKD's works are studies in psychosis and pharmacological-degradation. The adaptations, from the sophomoric, (Total Recall) to the sublime (Blade Runner) are studies in supreme interpretations of fractured genius.
By cylonphoenix at 1:53 PM ON 06/04/09
God I love PKD. His writing is amazing on so many levels. Hope they do it justice on screen.
By cylonphoenix at 1:57 PM ON 06/04/09
God I love PKD. His writing is amazing on so many levels. Hope they do it justice on screen.
By khabalox at 11:50 AM ON 08/28/09
"pretty much unreadable."
If you think "Do Androids Dream...," "We Can Remember It For You, Wholesale," or "Minority Report" were unreadable (the latter two are short stories for Christ's sake), then 1) I pity you and 2) stay far away from "Valis".
By jemco at 4:32 PM ON 08/28/09
Unreadable? You need to read more. They are more complex than many books, but are by no means unreadable.
By Latex Santa at 10:34 AM ON 11/08/09
When you say the books "don't resemble the movies", don't forget the books came first! Do androids dream of electric sheep is one of my favourite sf books and although Blade runner does not EXACTLY mirror the book, I enjoyed it as a film and was pleased by the amount that the ideas it portrayed resembled those of the book. Let's hope this is the same...
Visit mobile.syfy.com/wire on your mobile device.
Latex Santa:
When you say the books "don't resemble the movies", don't forget the books came first! Do androids dream of electri...More »