If all goes well, Paul Giamatti will give us Dick of the Philip K. variety. The "nontraditional biopic" (could there be any other kind for the eccentric sci-fi prophet?) will mix fiction and fact, as did Dick’s semiautobiographical novel VALIS. (As did Dick himself.) I’m fairly psyched to see Giamatti attempt the mind behind "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (transmuted into Total Recall), "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (Blade Runner), "Minority Report," "Paycheck," and A Scanner Darkly. This ought to be another Pekar for him, a rich portrait of a strange, cloistered talent sheltered by but also confined within his own brilliant, tortured mind. Tony Grisoni (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) wrote the script, so go ahead and slap on those trip-out goggles. No word on a director yet, but what self-respecting head-surfer (be it Gondry, Aronofsky, Soderbergh, Fincher or Linklater) wouldn’t jump at the chance?
Giamatti signs on to Philip K. Dick biopic
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Or Cronenberg, as an encore to Naked Lunch.
Wow, excellent! I’d love to see a story on PKD’s life. I love all the movies his stories are based on.
Is this a continuation of the “which news is the nerdiest” bit?
I’d love to see Ridley Scott take on Phillip K. Dick. His vision of “Do Androids Dream of Robot Sheep” (Bladerunner) set the tone for the “cyberpunk” influenced sci fi movies (Fifth Element, Matrix, the new trilogy) and anime (Akira, for just one example) that followed for years to come. Scott seems to have shyed away from this genre since his work in Bladerunner, but that noir sci fi masterpiece remains his best work IMHO (Okay, maybe Gladiator was better, but it had no flying cars!).
I think that all the below mentioned directors would do it justice (with the addition of Terry Gilliam, who I think could give it the necessary “twist”).
Do androids dream of electric sheep