Friday, February 15, 2002

ME AND MRS. STAMPLEY: Ginger is also psyched about A Scanner Darkly on the big screen. She wants Transmigration of Timothy Archer, which I endorse, though I would fear that somebody would art-film the heck out of it and make it way bleaker than it should be --all you really need to do is get some good actors and just film Archer, since its story rests entirely on its characters. She also wants UBIK, which would be fun and cool in a more cynical version of X-Men the movie way; I always thought UBIK was what the Justice League would be like if Dick wrote them. The Dick books I've always wanted to see as movies are Martian Time-Slip and The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch. Stigmata especially --Robert Duvall was born to play Leo Bulero. I also always saw Gabriel Byrne as Norbert Steiner from Time-Slip, but that's just me. Considering how much of the Dick oeuvre has been translated into movies already, this probably isn't idle speculation.

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