The Story: We’re in the future again, and Earth is at war with Proxima Centauri. After a seemingly endless arms race, Earth has developed a weapon that the Centaurians will be unable to withstand. Trouble is, they can’t get it to work. Meanwhile, some time-travel tinkering by Earth’s (highly-advanced) scientists brings Thomas Cole into the picture. Cole hails from pre-war times and (conveniently) has a gift for fixing things, but isn’t best pleased at his temporal displacement and refuses to help sort out the faulty weapon. The authorities are not impressed, and Cole soon finds himself on the run…
Directed By: This is the sort of heart-pounding thriller that Tony Scott would have a ball with.
Starring: Will Smith’s upstanding-citizen-turns-total-badass routine would make for a great Thomas Cole.
Key Scene: Cole breaks out of the scientists’ lab and goes on the run through an Earth he can barely recognise…
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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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