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Mar 2, 2011 · Dick’s slight tale of a meek everyman who discovers he’s actually a government assassin with an erased memory is mutated, in the hands of Verhoeven, into a clodhopping action fantasy, with the...
Oct 10, 2017 · The film adaptation sticks pretty close to the Philip K. Dick short story that inspired it, even keeping the book's bleak ending. But the film itself is an abysmal failure.
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- Screamers (1995) 29%, Based on The 1953 Short Story “Second Variety”
- Impostor (2001) 25%, Based on The 1953 Short Story “Impostor”
- Minority Report (2002) 89%, Based on The 1956 Short Story “The Minority Report”
- Paycheck (2003) 27%, Based on The 1952 Short Story “Paycheck”
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) 68%, Based on The 1977 Novel A Scanner Darkly
- Next (2007) 28%, Based on The 1954 Short Story “The Golden Man”
- Total Recall (2012) 31%
- Radio Free Albemuth (2010) 33%, Based on The 1976 Novel Radio Free Albemuth
In a world…where man has colonized the planets, war is being waged by two factions (the New Economic Block and the Alliance insurgents) over a precious radioactive mineral. The Alliance has developed “screamers” — autonomous robots that burrow through the ground to fight for them. But the screamers have evolved, developing new varieties that look a...
In a world… where a hostile civilization from Alpha Centauri is waging relentless war on Earth, the aliens have introduced a new weapon: replicants. These replicants arrive, kill their target human and assume its identity — all the while equipped with an internal nuclear device that can blow at any second. Spencer Olham (Gary Sinise) is a governmen...
In a world…that has zero murders, thanks to PreCrime wielding mutant predictions to accuse and arrest individuals before their bad deeds get committed, Captain John Anderton goes on the run as the “precogs” accuse him murdering a stranger in 36 hours. What went right: Some of Dick’s stories lack much action (like this, or “We Can Remember It For Yo...
In a world… where your memory is erased after finishing a job, engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) has just completed a majorly lucrative two-year contract. When emerging with his employment memories wiped, Jennings discovers his past self has inexplicably forfeited the paycheck in favor of an envelope of useless everyday trinkets. Soon afterwa...
In a world… of widespread drug addiction, Americans are hooked on mind-altering Substance D. The government responds with heavy policing and ubiquitous surveillance, creating a black job market of narcs who spy and report anonymously on their friends and neighbors. Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) is one such narc, a Sub D addict keeping tabs on his chums...
In a world… where one man can see two minutes into the future and its myriad of possibilities, Nicolas Cage is Cris Johnson, a clairvoyant relentlessly pursued by an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) who wants to use his ability to track down a nuke. What went wrong: In the short story, mutants are common and they’re rounded up to be studied then euthaniz...
What went wrong: Sometimes when Hollywood remakes a classic, producers will claim that their version is going to be closer to the book (see:True Grit). Not so in this case. The remake, directed by Underworld‘s Len Wiseman, doesn’t mine any additional story elements from “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” and instead works completely off the tem...
In a world… where a fascist president has ruled over America for 15 years, record store clerk Nicolas Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins receiving messages in his dreams from a far away galactic supreme being called VALIS. Under its direction, Brady moves his family to Los Angeles, takes up a position at a music label, and awaits the appearance of a so...
- Blade Runner. Cyberpunk film noir thriller "Blade Runner" is the 1982 film adapted from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"
- Blade Runner 2049. The long-awaited legacy sequel to one of the most groundbreaking science fiction movies ever made, "Blade Runner 2049" faced the impossible task of living up to a legend.
- Minority Report (movie) Directed by Steven Spielberg, the 2002 film "Minority Report" took Philip K. Dick's story and gave it a slicker, sleeker look and feel than previous adaptations like "Blade Runner" and "Total Recall."
- The Man In The High Castle. Launched in 2017, the Amazon original series "The Man In The High Castle" was adapted from Philip K. Dick's 1962 book of the same name.
Mar 2, 2011 · Now adapted into a Hollywood feature film called The Adjustment Bureau, Dick’s slight tale of a man who’s afforded a brief glimpse behind the curtain of reality has been transformed into a...
Some of his works have gone on to be adapted to films and series garnering much acclaim, such as the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner, which was an adaptation of Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, released three months posthumously to Dick's passing.
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Jan 8, 2024 · The stories of Philip K. Dick have laid the groundwork for some of the best science-fiction movies of all time, such as The Matrix and The Truman Show, but others like Total Recall and Minority...
