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1. Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles to be filmed
(Films/Science fiction films)

... The Martian Chronicles, and would make a fantastic series of films. I also keep hoping someone will take on Philip K. Dick's wonderful The Man in the High Castle. Imagine what could be done on film with ...

2. Science fiction still fighting for a place in the sun
(Films/Science fiction films)

... science fiction label is continuing full throttle. George Nolfi, director of the upcoming Philip K. Dick film adaptation The Adjustment Bureau, recently explained that his film, while based "very ...

3. Matt Damon in Philip K. Dick's The Adjustment Bureau
(Films/Science fiction films)

I'm usually quick to spot news regarding Philip K. Dick based movies as I'm an enthusiastic fan (he's arguably one of the twentieth century's greatest SF authors), but this one until now had slipped under ...

4. Emmerich confirms 3D motion capture for Asimov's Foundation trilogy
(Films/Science fiction films)

... fiction writers of all time, along with Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Frank Herbert. I'd love to see him get this one right.  ...

5. Google Phone, Nexus One, annoys Philip K Dick's daughter
(Films/Science fiction films)

The announcement that Google's first phone would be dubbed the Nexus One has apparently annoyed the family of Philip K Dick. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Isa Dick Hackett, daughter of author ...

6. Philip K. Dick: Rebel with a Cause (Part 1)
(Books/Science fiction books)

Death has been kind to the everlasting memory of Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), one of the most influential and perhaps also one of the most eccentric authors of the twentieth century. Since his untimely ...

7. Why science fiction authors just can't win
(Books/Science fiction books)

... Philip K. Dick is one of the few authors who occasionally crosses the dividing line, and appears consistently on university curriculum, especially in the US. According to Jett Heer in Lingua Franca magazine ...

8. Terry Gilliam to adapt Philip K. Dick’s The World Jones Made
(Films/Science fiction films)

Terry Gilliam, renowned for his excellent science fiction/fantasy films such as Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, as well as being part of the Monty Python comedy team, is planning to adapt Philip K. Dick’s science ...

9. Dick's Flow My Tears on track: a Man in the High Castle movie please!
(Films/Science fiction films)

Philip K. Dick's stories have been a rich source of material for Hollywood: Blade Runner, Imposter, Screamers, Minority Report, Total Recall (and the upcoming Total Recall remake) are just a few that spring ...

10. Blade Runner web based series: TV series to follow?
(TV/Science fiction TV)

... with the independent studio Ag8. Unfortunately the creators of the new series do not have the rights to Philip K. Dick’s original story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, so Purefold will instead ...

11. Total Recall remake by ironically named Original Films studio
(Films/Science fiction films)

... reports that the 1990 movie, Total Recall, based on Philip K. Dick's short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale is being remade too. What is really bizarre about this piece of news is that the ...

12. What's happening with the new Dune movie?
(Films/Science fiction films)

... Asimov’s Foundation movies for example, or the adaptation of his novel, The End of Eternity? The movie adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel Ubik and Ridley Scott’s movie version of Aldus Huxley’s Brave ...

13. Philip K. Dick’s ‘Flow My Tears’ to be filmed
(Films/Science fiction films)

Philip K. Dick's 1974 novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, is to be turned into a big budget feature film. Set in a futuristic dystopia where America has become a police state after a Second Civil ...

14. Genesis, by Bernard Beckett
(Books/Science fiction books)

... novel encourage comparison with the work of SF's most successful fictionalising philosopher, Philip K. Dick. Both authors are interested in what it is to be human but their focus is very different. Dick ...

15. So, what's the origin of SFFMedia, you ask?
(About Us/Something else to say)

... to a degree in literature and a doctorate on Philip K. Dick. I was an undergrad when I met John (in a tutorial on The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, naturally). Over the years we've talked and ...

16. Blade Runner sequel
(Films/Science fiction films)

... sequel to Blade Runner (officially approved by Philip K. Dick's estate) is the novel written by Philip K Dick's friend, K. W. Jeter, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, a continuation of both Scott's Blade ...

17. Philip Dick's unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight, to be written by Tessa Dick
(Books/Science fiction books)

Earlier this year we chatted with Philip K. Dick’s fifth wife, Tessa, about the forthcoming biopic of her husband. Starring Paul Giamatti in the role of Phil Dick and with a screenplay by Tony Grisoni ...

18. Philip K. Dick biopic The Owl in Daylight: Tessa Dick speaks out
(Films/Science fiction films)

For those of us who think of Philip K. Dick as the most important and influential writer of science fiction in the twentieth century, one of the more exciting movie projects announced last year was The ...

19. No more science fiction for William Gibson
(Books/Science fiction books)

... and Philip K Dick awards) and especially his later character driven novels, the so called "Bridge trilogy", made up of Virtual Light (1993), Idoru, (1996) and All Tomorrow's Parties (1999), but if Pattern ...

20. Philip K. Dick's King of the Elves movie
(Films/Fantasy films)

If Walt Disney Animation Studios was ever going to adapt a Philip K. Dick story for the big screen, it was going to be The King of the Elves. Though not the only fantasy Dick wrote, it is very Disney friendly. ...