Dick.

I found this article to be in poor taste. It also made me laugh.

TELL EM I"M FACKING COMING!!!!

It's too bad Tom Cruise didn't want to be part of this. I've heard he worships at the altar of Dick.

Saw this at a screening recently, the trailer really doesn't give too much away. Damon discovers the adjustment bureau pretty much at the beginning of the film. While there are some clips from late in the film, they aren't really given the proper context in the trailer to spoil anything.

"Hollywood has rarely been that faithful to Dick" — nice.

Wow. A good, (relatively) faithful adaptation of a PKD story??? That's like the holy grail. Totally psyched for this.

Hey, how come Michael Kelly only acts in Universal movies?

So THAT is where the Fringe writers got the idea for the 'Watchers', just a carbon copy of this story. Neat.

That's a long way to go for "Dick vein."

Ditto with #7. Loooove the Dick.

I've read the short story. The concept is sort of similar to the movie (when I originally read it I thought of DARK CITY) in that the titular adjustment bureau is fucking with the world in ways that people are completely unaware of. But the actual plot of the short story is about a dog, who's supposed to stall its owner long enough for the adjustments to take place, but screws up and falls asleep or something. So the owner stumbles into an adjustment taking place. There's nothing about a politician or a ballerina or a love story that I can recall. But the story was like 10 pages long so obviously they have to do a bit of expansion. I could be wrong on a few of these details too, it's been a few years since I read the story. I love Philip K. and have read maybe 20-30 of his books but it would actually be unwise to be faithful to his work most of the time. He has great ideas but he rarely had the patience to rewrite and edit them into polished works. Only one of his two best books (A SCANNER DARKLY and THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE) has been produced, and it's not surprising that it's the most faithful of all Hollywood's Dick adaptations. You get the sense with A SCANNER DARKLY that he was really trying to craft something perfect, as opposed to the downhill slalom approach he took to writing most of the time: bang out a draft and Bob's your uncle. So in conclusion I think any writer trying to adapt Dick has a generous license to make changes, because Dick books usually read like first drafts anyway. PAYCHECK sucked for a variety of reasons, but it's unfair to say it's because the movie was unfaithful to the story.

I feel bad that I singled out only two of Dick's best books in that last post when UBIK belongs in the same class. UBIK is some weird ass shit. They're making the movie too. God help them.

Dick can be a hard read.

Wow that trailer did seem to show us most of the movie but eh i'm still interested somehow…

Nice to see Michael Kelly getting more work though. After seeing him "Generation Kill" and more recently "Defendor" i really hope he can continue to get work.