jazzbo Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I've heard it may be reissued soon. Also that there will be a publication of the UBIK Screenplay. Here's hoping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/200...-morgan-coming/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) I really love the art in this Crumb comic. It's so damn good. He did a similar comic on the life of Robert Johnson. Edited February 10, 2008 by BruceH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 the UBIK Screenplay seems like something I'd check out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted February 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 (edited) Moi aussi. That and Nick and the Glimmung are the only two published works I don't have. Edited February 7, 2008 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinger Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Moi aussi. That and Nick and the Glimmung are the only two published works I don't have. Thanks for letting me know about Nick and the Glimmung reissue. I don't have it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmorin Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 the UBIK Screenplay seems like something I'd check out. One thing that knocked me out is how, as things started disintegrating in the story, PKD wanted the movie filmed on progressively older film stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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7/4 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CELLULOID DREAMS TO PRODUCE PHILIP K. DICK MASTERPIECE: UBIK MAY 19, 2008 CANNES, FRANCE - Celluloid Dreams has optioned the film rights to the Philip K. Dick science fiction masterpiece UBIK. The novel, a searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again, was dubbed “one of the 100 greatest English language novels” by Time magazine. Many of Dick’s other works have been successfully adapted for the screen, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly. The film will be produced by Hengameh Panahi of Celluloid Dreams and Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions, and is slated for production early 2009. “We are thrilled to actively participate in adapting UBIK,” said Hackett. “Our dad very much wanted this novel to be reimagined in this way and we are happy to be partnering with Celluloid Dreams, whose overall vision and appreciation of the material is consistent with our own.” Said Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions. Philippe Aigle handled the deal on behalf of Celluloid Dreams, Christopher Tricarico represented the Estate of Philip K. Dick and Electric Shepherd Productions in the negotiations. Celluloid Dreams was founded by its President, Hengameh Panahi in 1993. The organization is a totally independent production company and international sales agent based in Paris and London, specializing in finding, nurturing, promoting and distributing award-winning films created by first class talented directors from all over the world. Recent Celluloid productions include; Garth Jennings’ Son Of Rambow, Michael Haneke’s Funny Games US, and is currently in production with Julie Delpy’s The Countess, Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer’s Hello Darkness and Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere among others. Electric Shepherd Productions was founded by Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett, daughters of Philip K. Dick. Along with their brother Christopher Dick, the daughters own and manage the Philip K Dick library. Electric Shepherd Productions is credited for its contribution to A Scanner Darkly, and currently consulting on several other projects based on the works of Philip K. Dick, including the Disney/Pixar animated feature based on King Of The Elves. ESP is also producing a Philip K. Dick biopic for HBO Films. Visit Electric Shepherd Productions Web Site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Well, I'm not holding my breath. . . UBIK has been sequentially optioned just about since it's release as a novel, and nothing has ever come of it. Ugh. . . PKD Pixar. Not excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Yeah, well...we'll see what happens. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Who'd have thought, back in the 1970's, that Philip K. Dick would be so popular on the big screen? Back then, reading his novels and short stories was almost an underground thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 I think reading his books still is an underground thing....Hollywood sure likes his shit though. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blajay Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Man in the High Castle. At the Jazz Quarter on 20th Ave. in SF there is more often than not a Japanese collector buying original records. Reminds me a lot of the imperialist Japanese at that American guy's store that sells early 20th century and 19th century Americana stuff in that book. To see how many records the average Japanese collector swoops up there, in fact, makes me think the Japanese really did win WWII and are somehow colonizing San Francisco. On that thought, I read a pretty comprehensive book on the phenomenon of Jazz in Japan a couple months ago, called "Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan," by E. Taylor Atkins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 Late to this party and not exactly sure what to make of the (waning) Hollywood fetish for P.K. Dick... Perhaps the pulp-defined frame of reference of the typical Hollywood denizen, as he aims his eyes towards the stars, sees P.K.D., the critically acclaimed trashmeister, as some sort of validation? To belatedly answer the original query of this thread, I'll always have a sentimental attachment to the first P.K.D. novel I read as a junior-high-school SF enthusiast, "Eye in the Sky," which was a truly mind-blowing, nuclear-era-Rashoman of a tale for a thirteen-year-old. To answer the question from a more adult perspective, "Martian Time-Slip," "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch," "The Zap Gun," "Ubik"? Perhaps "Galactic Pot Healer"? (I kid... Or do I?) The shrug-inducing "Man in the High Castle" is overrated, I think. (As alternate history, compare this to the marvelous Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo film "It Happened Here," from about the same time.) I sometimes think that the Robert Crumb comic about Dick will be P.K.D.'s most enduring legacy. But that's wishful thinking. No doubt, the movies will be best remembered. Anybody else see the French adaptation of "Confessions of a Crap Artist"? It was called "Barjo." Not a bad little movie at all. I'd love to see it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blajay Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 The shrug-inducing "Man in the High Castle" is overrated, I think. (As alternate history, compare this to the marvelous Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo film "It Happened Here," from about the same time.) I'll have to check out that film, thanks Kalo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 The shrug-inducing "Man in the High Castle" is overrated, I think. (As alternate history, compare this to the marvelous Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo film "It Happened Here," from about the same time.) I'll have to check out that film, thanks Kalo. Don't Hesitate. It's absolutely the best alternate history film (making it, by default, one of the best science fiction films as well). And one of the best war-related films ever, in my opinion. And not just mine. To whet your appetite, check out the estimable "DVD Savant" Glenn Erickson's take on it: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s100here.html Available as an Image Entertainment DVD. Perhaps the most amazing thing about this movie was that it was made by teenage amateurs, who have since become respected figures in the world of film. Addendum: I forgot that the Erickson review linked-to above actually references P.K.D. in its first footnote! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 I think reading his books still is an underground thing....Hollywood sure likes his shit though. . Sometimes it seems that reading books at all is an underground thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 I don't know if I'd go as far as calling Man in the High Castle overrated (though I think I'm about to... ), and I certainly wouldn't call it "shrug-inducing", but it sure feels more tightly controlled than most of Dick's work. Too tightly perhaps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted August 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 I don't know if I'd go as far as calling Man in the High Castle overrated (though I think I'm about to... ), and I certainly wouldn't call it "shrug-inducing", but it sure feels more tightly controlled than most of Dick's work. Too tightly perhaps. What? Too tightly plotted by the I Ching? It's a book that gets better and better when reread (I've read it four times). Some very nice writing, for PKD, in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 12, 2008 Report Share Posted August 12, 2008 The shrug-inducing "Man in the High Castle" is overrated, I think. (As alternate history, compare this to the marvelous Kevin Brownlow/Andrew Mollo film "It Happened Here," from about the same time.) I am (as you probably know) in 100% agreement. I've long thought that the semi-inexplicable veneration of "Castle" was due to it winning a Hugo. Dick certainly wrote at least a dozen more interesting novels, but a relatively humdrum alternate history novel? The fans go wild! And, finally, a quiver of interest in "It Happened Here"----way to go Kalo!!! More than I've ever been able to inspire. (Apparently not enough alternate-history fans frequent the film thread.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 After putting it off for years, I've finally completed reading my first Philip K Dick novel, "UBIK". Absolutely loved it. What a mind trip! I'm looking forward to exploring more of his work. Thanks to jazzbo and the rest of you who contributed to this thread....it played a huge part in pushing me to finally pick up one of his books. I'm so glad I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 Excellent place to start! . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 After putting it off for years, I've finally completed reading my first Philip K Dick novel, "UBIK". Absolutely loved it. What a mind trip! I'm looking forward to exploring more of his work. Thanks to jazzbo and the rest of you who contributed to this thread....it played a huge part in pushing me to finally pick up one of his books. I'm so glad I did. Great! I wish you luck in your exploration of Dick. THE WORKS of Dick. Philip, that is. Philip K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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