30 Philip K Dick Stories That Should Be Movies

Time travel, aliens and robots galore...

By Total FilmMar 2nd 2011
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Beyond Lies The Wub

The Story: Intrepid spaceman Petersen buys a vast pig-like creature called a “wub” whilst visiting Mars. Bringing it aboard his spacecraft, he gets an earful from commanding officer Franco, who’s not best pleased about the extra weight. Things are complicated still further when the wub proves itself a creature of great intelligence, with telepathic powers. However, Franco is terrified rather than impressed, and decides the best course of action is to kill and eat the magical creature. Big mistake Franco, as eating the wub allows it to possess your body… 
 
Directed By: With a bit of tweaking this could be a pretty effective bodysnatchers-style horror. Perhaps the crew could bring back the wub (which self-replenishes) as a new food-source to solve Earth’s hunger, only to find people acting strangely after consuming the strange meat…we’ll have The Crazies director Breck Eisner at the helm for this one.
 
Starring: Thomas Jane plays Petersen, the space explorer who discovers the wub, but who holds serious misgivings about its use as a source of food. Stanley Tucci co-stars as the slippery corporate bigwig of the company who distributes the wub meat.
 
Key Scene: The first sign that things have gone awry, when some of the earliest wub consumers start behaving very violently…

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    • Hadouken76

      Mar 2nd 2011, 13:04

      What about The Man in the High Castle or that one about the President who fools his people into thinking that the world outside is unsafe (it isnt)? I forgotten the title.

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    • ChrisWootton

      Mar 2nd 2011, 14:33

      The Penultimate Truth?

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    • Hadouken76

      Mar 2nd 2011, 15:03

      YES! Thank you ! :D

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    • playsatan13

      Mar 2nd 2011, 16:21

      do your research FILM! 2nd variety is already a film called 'Screamers' starring Peter Weller (robocop), it's s**t but the story is near enough the same. What about 'Flow my tears the police man said', 'the three stigmata of palmer edlrich', 'martain time slip' or 'time out of joint' Someone should really do a better job of Paycheck too

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    • gwales

      Mar 2nd 2011, 16:53

      @playsatan13 I've said that in the copy. Thought it was worth including as although Screamers was a bit of a dud, the original plot is worth revisiting.

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    • ChrisWootton

      Mar 3rd 2011, 9:28

      Ha, in your face playsatan :-)

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    • playsatan13

      Mar 3rd 2011, 13:44

      Fair enough i missed that bit, but all the Dick films end up c**p anyway, blade runner and total recall are only from fractions of the stories their based on. so you cant count them as d***s true work (especially seeing the writer hated do androids dream.....). Paycheck was bad as hell. But for some strange reason a Scanner Darkly worked ??????

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    • oatkinson1

      Mar 10th 2011, 2:06

      Most of the ones listed are short stories, I sense a cop out here. It would be very difficult to do but I would love to see VALIS done.

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    • silverturnsgrey

      Apr 2nd 2011, 0:26

      I love that you've taken the trouble to write this article, brilliant! Roog, Beyond Lies The Wub and Ubik would be great on screen. I also think Time Out Of Joint could be pretty amazing. I don't see how they could make a film of VALIS. If the book doesn't really make sense, how could a film version?

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