September
Anna's newsblog: Sir Ridley Scott to direct new Blade Runner
Alcon Entertainment said the film will be a prequel or sequel, rather than a remake of the Philip K Dick adaptation. Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it starred Harrison Ford as a police officer who hunts down genetically engineered lifelike robots. The film was not a box…
Ridley Scott to direct and produce the new Blade Runner movie
Back in March we reported the news that Alcon entertainment had purchased the rights to Blade Runner was readying either a sequel or a prequel. Now, Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce the nextBlade Runner film. Wow.
Deadline is reporting that after revisiting hisAlien franchise, the director is keen to go back to again to another of his seminal science fiction projects, and has now signed a deal to direct and produce with the previously announced producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. There is still no word on whether this movie will be a sequel or a prequel. When we interviewed Kosove and Johnson (back in March) they were open to all ideas including showing the bloody Replicant mutiny, or what happened after the Rick Deckard story:
Kosove: “There are opportunities to think about either, what our world will be like in our almost immediate near future. Or to think about what the world is after Blade Runner, because we have things that have come into our being, things that are a part of our consciousness now that we couldn’t have imaged many years ago.
Deadline confirms that it still doesn’t sound like the production company knows what story they want to tell yet exactly, but that the writing process will be the next step. If we had to guess, we’d put our money on the near future mutiny. However, since Blade Runner was set in 2019, whatever they film as a prequel will have to be the very near-future. Read the full interview here.
Philip K. Dick’s Bible is on eBay for $6,500 Impulse buy alert! Someone is selling Philip K. Dick’s annotated personal Bible on eBay.
Buchweiser: Philip K. Dick: Die Lincoln-Maschine
Original: We can build you
Der erste Satz: “In den frühen1970ern wurde unsere Verkaufstechnik optimiert.”
Meinung: Die Kombination aus Autor, Titel und Klappentext klang sehr vielversprechend - die Geschichte entwickelte sich jedoch ganz anders als…
August
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick (M, 20s, walking with nose in book, exiting W4 St station at W3 St) http://bit.ly/mTnD5N
Written in 1969 by Philip K.Dick, “Ubik” will soon become a movie directed by Michel Gondry.
Ubik
Philip K. Dick. Garden City: Doubleday, 1969First edition, first printing of this scarce title.
July
Also, I have started reading Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Good so far. Simple style but very readable, and quietly profound.
