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- Have any of Philip K. Dick’s books been made into movies? Yes, several of Philip K. Dick’s books have been adapted into movies, including “Blade Runner,” “Total Recall,” “Minority Report,” and “A Scanner Darkly.” His works have also been adapted into TV shows, such as “The Man in the High Castle.”
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Jul 22, 2019 · By Jason Wojnar. Published Jul 22, 2019. Link copied to clipboard. Philip K. Dick published more than forty novels and over one hundred short stories, a truly impressive output that only a few other authors have surpassed. Unfortunately, a prolific output does not translate to money in the bank.
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- Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner wasn’t a success in theaters, but it attracted a cult following and it is now recognized as one of the greatest and most influential sci-fi movies ever made.
- Total Recall (1989) There are two Total Recall adaptations, and it’s not a coincidence that the 2012 remake didn’t make this list. The 1990 Paul Verhoeven version, one of the director’s best movies, is by far the better of the two, although both adaptations deal with Dick’s high concept of virtual vacations that can be implanted as memories.
- A Scanner Darkly (2006) Director Richard Linklater took a unique visual approach to A Scanner Darkly by filming everything and then having every frame traced over in rotoscope animation to make it look like an animated movie.
- Minority Report (2002) Steven Spielberg (making one of the best movies of his career) and Tom Cruise teamed up to bring Minority Report to the big screen.
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- 'Blade Runner' (1982) Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a former blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department but, despite being retired, he's asked by his former boss to track down three wanted humanoids known as replicants for shooting another blade runner and permanently "retire" them.
- 'Blade Runner 2049' (2017) Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, and Jared Leto. In 2049, bioengineered humans known as replicants are slaves in a dystopian society, including Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a Nexus-9 replicant who works as a blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department.
- 'Minority Report' (2002) Cast: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, and Samantha Morton. In 2054, the police in Washington D.C. utilize an innovative psychic technology that is programmed to find and convict murderers before the crime can occur.
- 'Total Recall' (1990) Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, and Michael Ironside. In the year 2084, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is tired of his life as a construction worker and aspires to visit the colonized planet of Mars.
Mar 2, 2011 · The only film on this list I’m ashamed to say I haven’t seen, this French drama adapts Dick’s 1975 non-science fiction novel, Confessions Of A Crap Artist, the only mainstream story Dick...
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- Blade Runner (1982) Without a doubt, Blade Runner is the most influential movies of the sci-fi genre. Visually striking, emotionally heavy, and embedded deeply with philosophical themes, there was nothing quite like it at the time.
- Minority Report (2002) Based on the short story “The Minority Report,” this Steven Spielberg movie is very faithful to the original while also adding plenty of world-building which, today, makes it seem like the movie itself had precognition.
- Total Recall (1990) As mentioned before, Total Recall borrows the premise of the Phillip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” but quickly strays into an action thriller territory, while the original story focused on the philosophical questions behind memory and identity.
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017) While not directly based on Phillip K. Dick’s short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” Blade Runner 2049 draws upon the spirit of Dick’s works and successfully expands on the Blade Runner universe.
Oct 5, 2017 · A surprising number of Philip K. Dick’s novels and short stories have been adapted over the years, with decidedly mixed results. Today, we’re taking another look at all of them, and ranking them from best. (We’re leaving off The Man in the High Castle series as both a TV production, and a work in progress.
Mar 7, 2022 · The ideas of Philip K. Dick, be them madness or prophetic, inspired some of the greatest science fiction films of all time, and these are the best adaptations of his work, 40 years after his...
