Over the years many films have been made based on the work of sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick both good and bad: Blade Runner, Total Recal, Minority Report, Paycheck and most recently A Scanner Darkly, amongst others. Now his classic Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said may be joining their ranks.
Halcyon Co. co-founders and co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson, who picked up first-look rights to Dick’s estate in 2007, have selected his 1974 novel as the first of his works they will adapt for the screen.
Set in a futuristic, dystopian world, Tears is the tale of a celebrity who wakes up one day to find out that his friends, family and fans have never heard of him. While trying to figure things out he is befriended by a policeman and his sister with whom he has a child.
It is a drug fueled mind trip that will more than prove a challenge to deliver to a wide audience.
Isa Dick Hackett and Laura Leslie, co-founders of Electric Shepherd Prods., the production arm of the Dick estate, will develop the work alongside Kubicek and Anderson. Dale Rosenbloom and John Alan Simon also will produce.
source: Hollywood Reporter
