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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (12171)	1/16/2004 5:53:16 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 14610

well, hollywood has been discovering PKD for the past 20 years. Bladerunner, Total Recall.....shoot, can't remember what else off the top of my head. Bladerunner (1982) - based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". Dick got paid $1,250 (no more zeroes) for it. Film is pretty true to the book. [Writing below partially from a table in the Wired article (prices and dates, etc). Comments on stories and films my own] Total Recall (1990) - based on "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale". It is a short story that has little to do with the film, in which a guy has a memory implant after while he remembers that when he was little, he saved an alien from certain death, and as a result, his race decided to put off plans to invade Earth until the end of the kid's natural life. Screamers (1996) and Impostor (2002) - Both flopped in the box office. Dick got paid $375 and $75, respectively for these. Minority Report (2002) - Based on the story "Minority Report". The film kind of followed the story in the book, where the director of the police agency finds out that the precogs have decided 3 to 2 that he would kill some general he has never met before. He contemplates framing by a young guy sent to replace him, his estranged wife, etc but finally settles in to the realization that if he does NOT kill the guy, the system will be proven wrong. So he kills the guy. Later finds out that 1st precog said he would kill the guy. Second said he would find out about the precog report and decide NOT to kill the guy. Third said he would go ahead and kill the guy so that the police order based on precogs will not be shown fallible. Personally I thought the whole Hollywood addition of a dead kid and wife who cannot stand to see him etc was a bit unnecessary. As well as the precog, who, suddenly finds the muscle power to walk and stuff. Anyway, Dick got paid $130 for the movie rights. Minority Report made him (post-humously) a celebrity. Paycheck (2003) - The only story from among the above that I have not read, so I hope to enjoy the film as is rather than pain through how they have butchered the book/story :-) Dick apparently got paid $195 for the movie rights... Here is the Wired article, if you would like to take a look. I liked the analysis of why Dick's stories apply to today's world and interest today's audience: wired.com