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>Hey Charles, I read something interesting today. Apparently Ridley Scott is producing a mini-series based on "The Man in the High Castle". And even better, Michel Gondry (director) is planning to make a movie of UBIK (now that, I gotta see).
I get excited about anything Ridley Scott is going to do, and this sound particularly good.
I confess I actually had to google the philip k dick site to remember Ubik - that was a looong time ago ( and I think I was reading in pretty much a continuous altered state ) I admire any efforts to film something like that, but am always skeptical that it can be done. I think of abominations like Vanilla Sky ( I liked Abre los Ojos a little better but maybe that's just because I like Madrid better than New York and pretty much anyone more than Tom Cruise )
I'm holding my breath thinking about how HBO is going to handle Game of Thrones - albeit the story line is a lot easier to screenplay. I guess Martin was pretty heavily involved, so that's a plus ( and probably accounts for a lot of the delay on Dances with Dragons. )
Charles Hankey
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