The Story: An old man arrives on Earth, claiming to have travelled back in time from a future in which Earth has suffered a crushing defeat in battle with Martian and Venusian colonies. Somewhat inexplicably, people actually begin to listen to him. What they don’t know however, is that the old boy wants them to believe they are destined to lose said war. Why? Because he’s a replicant…
Directed By: Ridley Scott is currently in the midst of rebooting his other major sci-fi film, so why not take on this forerunner to Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (That’s Blade Runner, for those who weren’t concentrating)?
Starring: Presumably he can’t be too creepy if people are happy to take him at his word, so we’ll plump for Alan Arkin as the mysterious War Veteran. Although the temptation is to go for Rutger Hauer again!
Key Scene: The moment when the government official (Matt Damon) charged with dealing with Arkin, realises that all is not as it seems. Gaaah, it was a trick!
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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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