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While Total Recall: Total Recallier scribe Kurt Wimmer—famous for faithful, nuanced adaptations like his James Ellroy update Street Kings—seems to be the one most likely to be drilling glory holes in Philip K. Dick's grave right about now, ...
11 mainstream media and 1 bloggers weighed in on a similar topic
8 Months Ago,
New York Times says
(in Son of Major Tom, at Ground Control)
United States
Later, as a lonely adolescent, he was irresistibly drawn to the alternate realities presented in the novels of Philip K. Dick and JG Ballard. “My upbringing was pretty weird, anyway,” Mr. Jones, said recently, “so it was maybe less of a jump for me. ...
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TheStranger.com says
(in An Extended Interview with John Maclean of the Juan Maclean)
WA
I'm not really a big science-fiction fan, because I have an aversion to the whole fantasy realm of science fiction, but a writer like Philip K. Dick was a really big influence on me as well from the time I was in high school. ...
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Examiner.com says
(in 'A Scanner Darkly')
A Scanner Darkly'
Although fictional, entirely an invention of Philip K. Dick (the genius behind Minority Report and Blade Runner), appears to be a combination of all possible drugs available, highlighting their negative effects on the human psyche. ...
9 Months Ago,
Business Standard says
(in Art and Adam)
India
and More's island Utopia, Orwell's 1984, the Bible, Alan Turing, Huxley's Brave New World, Golding's Lord of the Flies, Asimov's robotics, Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Stepford Wives, ...
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2SNAPS.TV says
(in Terminator Salvation: The Paul Dehn Effect Continues)
CA
McG made the cast and crew read Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) to get a feel for the bleakness of the worlds created in those novels. I have to say he did splendid job, but I doubt he ...
And
Examiner.com says
(in 80s movie appreciation: Blade Runner)
Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? proposes that even in 2021, Americans will be driven by a bourgeois desire to fit in, and surpass, one's neighbors. Rick Deckard, the book's protagonist, owns an electric sheep. ...
13 Months Ago,
LIVENEWS.com.au says
(in PREVIEW: Terminator Salvation set to tear screens apart)
Australia - Feb 2, 2009
“We had a respectful conversation, I gave him Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to read but his answer was: ...
And
A.V. Club says
(in Hell is plastic: 18 calamitous music and movie packaging gimmicks)
- Feb 1, 2009
The Total Recall: Special Limited Edition DVD Mars box Paul Verhoeven's 1990 Philip K. Dick adaptation is set on Mars. Mars is round. DVDs are round… ...
And
Fabula says
(in Trans/Forming Utopia Volume II: The 'Small Thin Story')
Trans/Forming Utopia Volume II: The 'Small Thin Story'
France - Jan 29, 2009
History: Alternate World(s) of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - Alireza Omid Bakhsh: The Roots of Dystopia in Iran - Ana Raquel Fernandes: ...
14 Months Ago,
EducationGuardian.co.uk says
(in Rose reading)
UK - Dec 29, 2008
His list of favourites, for a start, is fun: "The Stand [by Stephen King], A Scanner Darkly [Philip K Dick], Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, James Dean: The ...
15 Months Ago,
24 Hours Vancouver says
(in Keanu ... Klaatu, Klaatu ... Keanu)
Canada - Dec 9, 2008
Add to this the hallucinatory Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, the cyberpunk flop Johnny Mnemonic and the supernatural thriller Constantine and ...
And
Los Angeles Times says
(in Keanu Reeves' freaky flights of fancy)
Keanu Reeves' freaky flights of fancy
CA - Dec 5, 2008
More recently, in "A Scanner Darkly," Richard Linklater's rotoscoped adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel, he played a drug-addled narc who slips among ...
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Like Blade Runner and Minority Report, Total Recall was based on a science fiction by the paranoid pillhead Philip K. Dick—in this case, his short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Dick, for whom Carlos Castaneda, ...
Sat, Oct 18 | from New York Magazine