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Cover of Science Fiction Review #10 issue with Barclay Shaw's cover of TIME OUT OF JOINT

I just got a copy of Science Fiction Review #10, from May 1992.  In  “The Ghost in the Android” Charles Coulombe reviews major themes in PK Dick’s oeuvre using the films Blade Runner and Total Recall as starting points. These were the only PKD based movies available 20 years ago, when Paul Williams was PKD’s literary executor, and the Philip K. Dick Society had 1139 members  around the world. The article gives us (based on information from Paul Williams) a list of film projects based on PKD materials that were being developed then:

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (by Vanguard Films)

The Father Thing: Rights were negotiated with MGM/UA and a script written by William F. Nolan and Dan Curtis. The story was one part of a three-part TV series called Trilogy of Terror II, a sequel to a Dan Curtis 70′s movie. Trilogy of Terror II was eventually made in 1996 by Dan Curtis, based on a script by Nolan, but it did not include the Father Thing.

UBIK: Rights were purchased by an independent company for a low budget movie that was to be started in 1991. A script has been written for the movie.

Rights to use In the Mold of Yancy and The PENULTIMATE TRUTH were purchased by Gary Moskowitz to use the central idea, of a manufactured political figure, that is behind both pieces.  Moskowitz had produced a couple of video documentaries on Playboy playmates at the time (and not much more since).

TIME OUT OF JOINT: the book had been optioned by Warner Bothers for many years. The screenwriter Sam Hamm (Batman) placed a script for it with Batman producers Guber-Peters. Despite Paul Williams prediction that the script won’t lie around for long, nothing happened to it.

There was also mention of an interest by Terry Gilliam to make a PKD movie.

Twenty years and 10 PKD movies later, none of these projects were made (for the best, in some cases) and they are all gathering dust somewhere. The only movie title in this list which is underway is  UBIK by Gondry, but it is a different project.

Below you’ll find the list of movie projects underway today. Let’s revisit it in 2032 and be surprised.

• Flow My Tears The Policeman Said: Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to sci-fi 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.
• Ubik. Michel Gondry, French movie director, has been picked to make a movie out of Philip K. Dick’s masterpiece, Ubik. Gondry, who has directed many documentaries and videos, is better known for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a somewhat dickian storyline about erasing and implementing memories in people’s brain (like in Total Recall). His more recent movie was an adaptation of The Green Hornet. Shooting may not start before the end of year 2011.
• The Man in the High Castle. A four-hour miniseries, written by British playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton (The Churchill Play, Spooks), based on The Man in the High Castle, is under production in Great Great Britain. Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner is the producer. The Hugo Award-winning The Man in the High Castle is set in an alternate world where Nazi Germany and Japan’s Axis powers actually defeated the American Allied forces in World War II.
• The King of the Elves (2012). Based on the only fantasy short story writtem by PKD, this will be an Pixar/Disney animated feature. The story follows an average man living in the Mississippi Delta, whose reluctant actions to help a desperate band of elves leads them to name him their new king. Joining the innocent and endangered elves as they attempt to escape from an evil and menacing troll, their unlikely new leader finds himself caught on a journey filled with unimaginable dangers and a chance to bring real meaning back to his own life.

The Philip K . Dick connection with Moebius is a drawing depicting scenes from Clans of the Alphane Moon, including Lord Running Clam the Ganymedan slime mold. The drawing was published in the French magazine Pilote (# 743)  in 1974.

Scenes from Clans of the Alphane Moon by Moebius

In a Scanner Darkly Agent Fred, is an undercover police agent assigned to spy on Bob Arctor a drug user who is no one but Fred himself. Sounds crazy? Well, not anymore: The Telegraph reports that “An undercover police officer “chased himself round the streets” for 20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for suspect”.

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Seen on the web:

• ‘Total Recall’ director talks remake//NME.com

Both films are based on Philip K Dick’s 1966 short story We Can Remember For You Wholesale. Now, Wiseman has revealed that he is almost done with his movie. He told Coming Soon: “I’m very close to handing over my cut. It’s going really well.
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Colin Farrell and his wife Kate Beckinsale

• Total Recall reboot won’t be going to Mars//TG Daily

Sony Pictures has released the official synopsis for its upcoming re-adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember it for You Wholesale. As you may recall, We Can Remember it for You Wholesale served as the inspiration for the first Total Recall film .
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• A Totally Official Synopsis For The ‘Total Recall’ Reboot//Science Fiction

The synopsis is missing several key words that one would expect and mentions the Philip K. Dick story on which it is based up front: “Total Recall” is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember …
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• Len Wiseman talks Total Recall//TotalFilm

Now Wiseman has come out and had his say on the project, which he insists will delve deeper into the themes addressed by the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, upon which the first film was based. “I’m very close to handing over …
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Here is the content:

• Editorial by Patrick Clark
• A matter of weight: The Exegesis of Philip K Dick by Dave Hyde
• On The Confusion Between Eisegesis, Exegesis and the Queen of the Fairies: An Eisegesistical Commentary by Frank C. Bertrand
• A Hell-Chore, Indeed! by ej ‘Jami’ Morgan
• A Scanner Darkly: A Slice In Time by Lord Running Clam
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974 — A Summary by Dave Hyde
• The Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick: 1974 — An Index compiled by Dave Hyde
• A Reappraisal of Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Cosmic Puppets’ by Nick Buchanan
• Book Reviews
• Notes and Comments
• Letters to the Editor

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