Phillip K. Dicks
Adjustment Team is coming to the movies - at least providing some brave studio is willing to take a punt on a
Matt Damon sci-fi romance movie. So, no question then. This will get snapped up, recession or no recession.
According to
Variety, the proposed movie version has been retitled
Adjustment Bureau, for all the Kafkaesque implications that provides, and comes as a package: Damon to star,
George Nolfi to direct from his own screenplay. Nolfi previously scripted
Oceans Twelve (which is my favorite of the three) and
The Bourne Ultimatum (again, my favorite of the three) and is now inking the screenplay for
Bourne 4.
The premise of the original
Adjustment Team story is a good one, though certain elements will be familiar to anybody who has seen
Dark City: a real-estate salesman discovers that his reality is a big ol fake, controlled by mysterious overlords who change it up as part of some enigmatic process. If I remember correctly, this salesman has a wife who has to have her experience changed out of sync with her husbands - but I might be wrong, I read it almost 20 years ago now. I might just be remembering
Dark City. I have that with
Bladerunner and
Electric Sheep too, in some respects, and Ive even mistaken
Minority Report for a Phillip K. Dick adaptation before - but its okay, Ive come to my senses now and wont be fooled again. Its so clearly nothing of the sort, no matter what they titled it.
We had a wild run on Phillip K. Dick options a few years back but, thankfully, that dried up before they ran the authors name into the ground once and for all. Then, more recently, duelling Dick biopics were expected. One of them, Tony Grisonis
The Owl in Daylight, never entered production and
Your Name Here, which stars Bill Pullman as William J. Frick in a quasi-
Valis mish-mash of alternative realities, hasnt yet made it into wide distribution.
