Someone told me that they made more movies based on Phillip K Dick books, however the only one I kow of is Bladerunner from his "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Does anyone know of any others?
While I am at it, if you are a Dick fan (no pun intended) which novel do you think is his best?
I heard that Total Recall was loosely based on Martian Time Slip or something like that. Also Minority Report is loosely based on Minority Report.
I'm not sure which novel of his I most enoyed (it's been a while, but I once read any of his books I could get my hands on). The VALIS trilogy is great, of course, but I also enjoyed the Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and also (strangely) Clans of the Alphane Moon.
There was also one in which this guy was doing this puzzle called something like "Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?" and I think the Truman Show was (loosely) based on this book.
By the way, despite the horrible remake of Solaris (and the first movie wasn't so great either), the book is fantastic. I wish someone would do a good film adaptation of something by Stanislaw Lem.
Thanks for your help...perhaps you can help me with something else
Did Phillip K Dick do some book in which the hero was the pig, who revelead all these fantastic philiosophical answers and the humans ended up eating him in the end...or am I thinking of something else? I recall this a looong time ago, but cannot remember the title...
Also "Screamers" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/) is pretty good. and "Imposter" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160399/), which I also really liked
Can't forget the recent 'Paycheck' either.
Tom wrote:
> I heard that Total Recall was loosely based on Martian Time
> Slip or something like that.
More specifically, his short story titled "We can remember it for you wholesale" (or something like that).
Man, there's a joke to be made here but I just can't bring myself to do it...
He did a short story about a martian talking pig called a wub called "Beyond Lies the Wub", not great, in my opinion. Martian wubs also reffered to in some story where lining a book in wub fur causes it to contain commentary from the spirit of the deceased wub.
Loved "Total Recall", very, very, very, very, very loosely based on "We Can Remember it for you Wholesale", I think they threw in little refferences or something to his other stories, like the multi-boob chick might have been from "The Golden Man". For a long time, when I heard people talk about taking the red pill, I thought they were talking about "Total Recal", which I have elsewhere described as a thinking man's "The Matrix".
Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next? is from "Time Out of Joint", one of Dick's more Dickian works. I haven't read many of his novels, just that one, "The Man In The High Castle" (Axis won, needed an ending), and "Martian Time Slip", which I really liked. I just bought Palmer Eldrich, haven't gotten very far in it. I have a little trouble with some of the self-conciously bizzare details of the future, like truffle skins for currency because everything else is too easy to synthesize. Also, I find I can't relate to his protagonists when they are OBSESSED WITH USELESS ORNAMENTAL CERAMICS!!!!!! I didn't even know VALIS was a trilogy (can anyone remember what the title stands for?). Technically, I don't think it's fiction, since Dick went completely insane around the time he wrote it, and beleived it to be factual.
I believe the accepted term for us is "Dickheads".
There is supposedly a version of his fantastic book "A Scanner Darkly" in the works to star, Keanu Reeves. Totally wrong choice, I'd go for Kevin Spacey in the lead role(s). Can't wait to see how they screw up the ending if they make the film.