Philip Ok. Dick’s 1960 AI Tale Vulcan’s Hammer Will Be a Movie

Published shortly earlier than Philip Ok. Dick’s breakout novel The Man within the High Castle, Vulcan’s Hammer won’t be one of many celebrated writer’s best-known titles. But its pulpy story is—like so a lot of Dick’s works—eerily prescient, and director Francis Lawrence, who’s roamed some dystopian landscapes up to now due to movies like The Hunger Games and I Am Legend, and Apple TV+ sequence See, sees big-screen potential in it.

This information comes courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter, which sums up the story thusly: “Hammer is set after a devastating world war, when the nations of Earth form the Unity party and cede global governance to the Vulcan AI system, which algorithmically dictates policies for Unity to carry out. However, after Vulcan is attacked and a special agent is murdered, Unity director William Barris is called to unravel the mystery to figure out who, or what, wants to destroy the system he has dedicated his life to.”

Among the producers: Isa Dick Hackett, Dick’s daughter, who additionally labored on earlier diversifications like Amazon’s The Man within the High Castle and Philip Ok. Dick’s Electric Dreams, in addition to the characteristic movie The Adjustment Bureau. Those are, in fact, only a few of the titles based mostly on Dick’s physique of labor, alongside the likes of Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Total Recall, and Minority Report.

So far there’s no phrase on who would possibly star within the movie, or after we would possibly get to see it. Lawrence’s subsequent launch is Slumberland—a Netflix movie adaptation of the Winsor McCay comedian guide Little Nemo in Slumberland, starring Jason Momoa—and after that he has Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

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