Sci-Fi Luminary Philip Okay. Dick to Receive Movie Biography

Philip Okay. Dick is likely one of the most necessary and influential science fiction authors of all time, having written masterpieces like The Man within the High Castle, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and the novels that impressed the flicks Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, and extra. Dick was additionally a really troubled man who suffered from drug abuse, hallucinations, a suicide try, and lots of different psychological illnesses. Now the writer’s tumultuous actual life will get its personal film.

Based on a biography of the identical title written by Paul Williams, who managed Dick’s literary property after the writer handed away in 1982, Only Apparently Real might be centered round an occasion in 1971, the place Dick returned to his residence and found his secure had been opened and the private papers in it had been lacking. While it was initially investigated as a theft, the police started to suspect Dick did it himself for unknown causes. Either means, the offender was by no means caught, and Dick wrote this concerning the occasion the following yr:

“…the vast robbery and looting of my house a year ago in San Rafael, which caused me to move out of the United States while I thought it over. I came home one evening and found rubble and ruin, my locked files blown open, papers of every sort gone, stereo gone, virtually everything gone, windows and doors smashed. To this day I don’t know who did it. Robbery was not the motive; too many valueless items were taken, too much care to take correspondence and business records… the police to a certain extant [sic] favored the theory that I had done it myself. I didn’t. I to a certain extant [sic] favored the theory that they had done it…”

The movie model has no director but, however will probably be produced by John Shestack (Air Force One, Waiting…). However, the Hollywood Reporter says “The project is being financed through a blockchain-based DAO,” so maybe we don’t want to carry our collective breath.

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