"Next" movie based on PKD's " The Golden Man&
Jessica Biel, Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore will star in Lee Tamahori's upcoming film version of Philip K. Dick?s sci-fi story THE GOLDEN MAN.
ridleynoir wrote:http://www.moviehole.net/news/20060223_fun_with_dick_and_jessica.html
Jessica Biel, Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore will star in Lee Tamahori's upcoming film version of Philip K. Dick?s sci-fi story THE GOLDEN MAN.
"Next," the latest such undertaking, is definitely so-so at best; but it also falls into a new category of PKD adaptations ? if "adaptation" is the word. For this curious project, writer and producer Gary Goldman (who'd previously worked on "Minority Report" and "Total Recall," another PKD-based movie) acquired the rights to a 1954 Dick short story called "The Golden Man." Then he threw away the story, replaced it with an unrelated narrative of his own devising, changed the title, and shopped the resulting property to Saturn Films, a production company run by Nicolas Cage. Cage's reaction to Goldman's PKD-free script is quoted in the movie's press notes: "I admire Philip K. Dick; he's edgy and uncompromising, and his unique voice in writing translates successfully to films."
This is a bizarre thing to say about a story that has nothing to do with Dick's "unique voice," or with his writing in any way.
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