Director Richard Kelly Is Playing The Long Game – Here's What He's Working On Now [Interview]
What's the status of the next Richard Kelly movie? We spoke to the director of Donnie Darko and Southland Tales about what he's working on now.
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The Philip K. Dick Movie Adaptation Primer: The Good, The Bad And The Meh
Our Philip K. Dick movie adaptation primer takes you inside the many film adaptations based on the prolific science fiction writer behind Blade Runner.
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'The Man In The High Castle' Season 3 NYCC Clip Has Proof Of Other Worlds
A new Man in the High Castle Season 3 NYCC clip from the Amazon series has Rufus Sewell seeing first-hand proof of the existence of alternate dimensions.
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'Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams' NYCC Trailer: The Future Is Still Human
Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams trailer at NYCC reveals an extended look at the new science fiction anthology show coming to Amazon Prime Video next year.
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TV Bits: 'Hanna' Is Happening, Jon Stewart's HBO Show Isn't, 'Veep' Renewed, And More
In this edition of TV Bits: That Hanna TV series is definitely happening Our first look at Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace in American Crime Story Jon Stewart's HBO series goes up in smoke Comedy Central's The President Show earns more episodes And more! Earlier this year, we wrote about how The Night Manager's David Farr was hoping to create…
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'The Man In The High Castle' Trailer Introduces An Axis-Controlled America
Check out the new The Man in the High Castle trailer. The new Amazon series takes place in an alternate '60s where the Axis Powers won the war.
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'The Man In The High Castle' Trailer: Amazon Brings The Philip K. Dick Novel To Series
Check out the Man in the High Castle trailer, for the new Amazon series depicting an alternate American history where we lost World War II.
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Alexa Davalos Cast In Amazon's 'The Man In The High Castle' TV Series
The Man in the High Castle is among the more well-known Philip K. Dick novels, perhaps because it explores a premise many people have perhaps mused upon at some point in their lives: what if Germany and Japan won World War II? The novel is set in the early '60s in an America that is…
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Fox's Minority Report TV Series Will Be A Female-Led Sequel To Spielberg Movie
Steven Spielberg is developing a Minority Report tv series with Godzilla screenwriter Max Borenstein. Learn more details about the planned television series.
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Philip K. Dick Novel 'Martian Time-Slip' To Be Adapted By 'Pariah' Writer/Director
Yet another novel by Philip K. Dick is in development as a feature, but this one might end up differently than most. Typically, a PKD story will be the basis for a somewhat mainstream big-budget thing that files away all the odd edges and corners of the original. Something like Blade Runner or Richard Linklater's…
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TV Bits: 'Zombieland', 'Beverly Hills Cop', 'S.H.I.E.L.D.', 'Breaking Bad', 'Game Of Thrones', 'American Horror Story', Damon Lindelof, Brett Ratner, Ridley Scott
Whoever asked the universe for a Brett Ratner-produced Farmville TV series, your prayers have been answered. Also after the jump: Director Barry Sonnenfeld signs on for Beverly Hills Cop Ridley Scott sets up a Philip K. Dick-based miniseries at Syfy HBO gives pilot order to Damon Lindelof's The Leftovers Zombieland casts Maiara Walsh as its new Emma…
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Philip K. Dick's 'Now Wait For Last Year' Optioned
It's been nearly thirty years since the passing of iconic sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick, but his popularity in Hollywood apparently hasn't waned at all. Big-screen projects based on his books and short stories include Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, and The Adjustment Bureau, and now Lila 9th and Electric Shepherd…
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Kate Beckinsale Offered A Lead Role In 'Total Recall'
In news that should surprise no one familiar with the actress's personal background, Kate Beckinsale has been offered a central role in Live Free or Die Hard director Len Wiseman's remake/update of Total Recall. She's allegedly up for the part of Lori, the wife to Colin Farrell's leading man Quaid. In Paul Verhoeven's 1990 telling…
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Jessica Biel May Join 'Total Recall'
The Len Wiseman-directed remake / new version of Total Recall already has Colin Farrell as the lead character, and Bryan Cranston as the antagonist. We know there are two big female roles to cast, Lori, the main character's wife, and Melina, whom he encounters as the story goes on. They were originally played in the…
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Bryan Cranston Cast As 'Total Recall' Villain; Basic Plot Revealed
What will it take to make the Total Recall remake look like a good idea? Casting Colin Farrell in the lead is a good move, while hiring Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard) to direct doesn't inspire quite the same good will. We've known little else about the film, but now Bryan Cranston…
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Michel Gondry Adapting Philip K. Dick Novel 'Ubik'
Now that Michel Gondry has done the big studio thing with The Green Hornet he is free to focus on any of the number of projects that he's been cooking over the years. The We and I is possibly his next film, which is a semi-documentary about group dynamics as seen in a bunch of…
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Colin Farrell Confirmed For 'Total Recall' Remake
When Colin Farrell was replaced by Robert Pattinson in David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis, it seemed safe to assume that Farrell was taking the lead in the Len Wiseman-directed remake of Total Recall. But in an interview shortly afterward, Farrell hedged on the question. Now producer Neal Moritz has confirmed that the actor is leading the…
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'Total Recall' Lead Offered To Colin Farrell
The 'offer' story is one of the more useless developments in the movie news business. Because offers go out all the time, and the reason we don't hear about most of them is that they're meaningless as news. The offer is part of the process of getting a film made, but until it actually turns…
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Ridley Scott Producing BBC Adaptation Of Philip K. Dick's 'The Man In The High Castle'
There have been a great many terrible and/or forgettable film adaptations of stories by speculative fiction master Philip K. Dick. One of the few PKD films that became a legend in its own right -- even if it isn't a very faithful adaptation, or perhaps because of that fact -- is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.…
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Disney Updates: Beauty And The Beast 3D Pushed; New Date For Monsters, Inc. 2; King Of The Elves Being Reworked
There are a few Disney project updates today. First up, the release of Monsters Inc. 2 has been pulled up by two weeks to avoid competition with the final film in the Twilight series. The new date for the Pixar sequel is November 2, 2012. That'll give it two weeks before Twilight opens, but Pixar…
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First Look: The Adjustment Bureau
Universal Pictures has released the first two photos from George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau. The movie is a sci-fi romance based on the Philip K Dick short story The Adjustment Team. The movie follows an affair between a politician and a ballerina, which is "affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart." The film stars…
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The Estate Of Philip K. Dick Threatening Google With Legal Action
Google have decided to call their new cellphone the Nexus One which suggests it's a full five... er... Nexuses not as good as those naughty Replicants that gave Rick Deckard such trouble in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, filmed as Blade Runner. This comparison has not been lost on the estate of author Philip…
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Cool Stuff: Tim Doyle's Blade Runner-Inspired Art Print "The White Dragon"
Nakatomi has released "The White Dragon", a new print inspired by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. This print is a collaboration by artist Tim Doyle and colorist Nick Derington, the lead animator on Richard Linklater's adaptation of another Philip K. Dick adaptation, A Scanner, Darkly. “He Say you a BRADE RUNNAH!” Measuring 12x24, this 4 color print is printed…
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Gilliamwatch: Johnny Depp Definitely Not Joining The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, New Philip K. Dick Adaptation And More
Despite there still being no public announcement of a US distribution deal for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Terry Gilliam is still very busy with publicity for the film as well as planning for next year's second attempt at The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. I'm in hog heaven reading, watching and listening to all…
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Gimme Remakes: Total Recall Recalled Back To Theaters
Earlier today, /Film's Brendon Connelly reported on a new Matt Damon movie based loosely on a short story by one of the most important and precocious authors of all time, Philip K. Dick, and now, well, THIS. Columbia Pictures and producer Neal H. Moritz (I Am Legend, The Green Hornet, The Skulls III) have tossed…
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Alanis Morissette Knows Philip K. Dick
Who would have ever thought that singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette would become a film actress? Sure, she did do a stint on the Nickelodeon television show You Can't Do That On Television (you know, the one with the green slime that falls from the ceiling?). And she also made a brief, but fun appearance as GOD…
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