

Ceci est une rumeur (dont voici la source).
Il semble que l’adaptation de la (seule) nouvelle de fantasy de Philip K. Dick King of the Elves soit stoppée par Disney.
Le film devait être réalisé par Aaron Blaise et Robert Walker, en images de synthèse. Pour faire court, des personnes bien informées annoncent l’arrêt de sa production, le site officiel Walt Disney animation studio ne liste plus le film (la page qui lui est consacrée existe cependant toujours sur le serveur).
Le site avance diverses hypothèses pour l’arrêt de la production :
Isa Dick Hackett, a daughter of Mr. Dick, said in an interview Tuesday that she was “shocked and dismayed” by reports indicating that the Google phone would be named after her father’s famous characters. “We were never consulted, no requests were made, and we didn’t grant any sort of permissions.”
Ms. Hackett, president of Electric Shepherd Productions, the arm of the Dick estate that handles film adaptations and the licensing of materials, said, “In my mind, there is a very obvious connection to my father’s novel.”
« Je me sens très différent de Philip K. Dick car ses problèmes avec la réalité sont liés avec la drogue. Tandis que moi, cela a plus à voir avec la psychologie, les croyances, etc.” Malgré cette différence de taille, Les deux auteurs rendent floues les frontières entre science-fiction et fantastique : “Je suis plus intéressé par l’imaginaire et le fantastique. En Grande Bretagne et aux USA, c’est plus facile à publier que la science-fiction. La science-fiction permet de regarder comment vont se passer les choses à partir de données scientifiques. En fantastique, il n’y a pas de règles, tout peut arriver.” À la lecture de Futur intérieur, il est tentant de faire un parallèle avec les réalités virtuelles que proposent Internet et les jeux vidéos. Seulement, en 1977, Internet n’existait pas encore. “J’ai piqué l’idée à minitel”, explique-t-il avec un sourire. “Quand j’ai écrit ce livre, je pensais surtout aux enfants qui s’inventent des jeux. Les enfants savent que leur jeu n’est pas la réalité. Les adultes font la même chose tout en essayant d’y trouver quelque chose d’utile. »
À l'époque du tournage de « Blade Runner », vous aviez eu de nombreuses tensions avec Ridley Scott. D'une mésentente avec un réalisateur peut donc naître un film culte ?
Ma relation avec Ridley n'a pas été aussi catastrophique qu'on l'a dit. Et nous ne nous sommes pas brouillés. C'est devenu une légende. Je ne nie pas les désaccords et les disputes vigoureuses avec Ridley mais j'ai toujours admiré son intelligence, sa façon de filmer. Les complications dans le processus créatif ne définissent pas l'expérience.






Terry Gilliam : I mean, like, « Brazil »... I was even more determined it had to end that way because of "Blade Runner" having betrayed me at the ending. I felt betrayed because I loved that until the end of the film. Now all of a sudden, the android's going to live forever? What the fuck are you talking about, man? You create a world that's very solid, and then you... that's why Philip K. Dick is always been one of my favorite writers. He doesn't go where that road takes you.
Drew McWeeny: I am convinced that someone will eventually make « The Man in the High Castle ». There is such...
I'm actually meeting his daughter tomorrow.
Are you? Are you? That is just a phenomenal book and so ripe in terms of the way it talks about how we process reality and the way we tell ourselves stories about history. I think now is a great time to remind people of some of the things Phillip had to say.
One of the things that is... there's another one that people don't know called « The World According to Jones ». Do you know that one?
Mm-hmm.
That really fascinates me... where we're in a world where basically everything is relative. It can't be black and white because there's a more religious fundamentalism that we're talking about. So now everything is relative. And then the idea that a guy comes along that can see the future, and it is not relative... that intrigues me, and I don't know exactly how to do it. His other books... « Ubik » is always fun. But again, so much of his stuff has been stolen already and used...
Oh, absolutely stolen, and they keep making the mistake of thinking that you take a great concept from Phillip and you graft an action movie onto it. It's like, no, no, no. He's got more than enough ideas to get you through. You don't need to do all the action stuff.

Note : les quatre premiers numéros seront réunis sous la forme d’un volume unique, un hard cover, comme ils disent.
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Dans un monde futuriste, les humains vivent reclus. Leur seule façon de communiquer est de se faire remplacer par des robots, version améliorée d'eux même... Un policier sera forcé de quitter sa maison pour la première fois en plusieurs années pour enquêter sur des meurtres qui mettent en cause ces Surrogates.
In the year 2091 AD, a race of futuristic bounty hunters called "Blade Runners" are tasked with exterminating a deadly breed of lifelike robots known as "Replicoids." When Replicoid Cy Borg threatens to take over the entire internet using an advanced computer virus, Blade Runner Deckard 2.0 must stop him... or else all humanity may be destroyed!
Gaff: It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
Deckard 2.0: [voiceover] It was then I learned I had been a Replicoid the entire time. I couldn't believe it! I thought I was a human being... but I was wrong... dead wrong.
(Merci à David Kilahn pour le lien.)


Il n’y a pas beaucoup à se mettre sous la dent. Juste la présentation par Disney de leurs prochains films. On aperçoit le logo de King of the Elves, adaptation de la seule nouvelle de Philip K. Dick touchant à la fantasy.
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« We are thrilled that DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? is being adapted for this audience by such a talented team. We’ve been incredibly impressed with BOOM!’s ability to create such a faithful interpretation of the original work without sacrificing their own original instincts and artistic sensibilities,” said Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions. “Through this medium, readers will now have visual access to parts of the novel not explored in the film adaptation BLADE RUNNER.”

DECKARD (V.O.)
I told myself over and over again, if I hadn't done it, they would have.
I didn't go back to the city, not that city, I didn't want the job.
She said the great advantage of being alive was to have a choice. And she chose. And a part of me was almost glad. Not because she was gone but because this way they could never touch her.
As for Tyrell -- he was murdered, but he wasn't dead. For a long time I wanted to kill him. But what was the point? There were too many Tyrells. But only one Rachael. Maybe real and unreal could never be separated. The secret never found. But I got as close with her as I'd ever come to it. She'd stay with me a long time. I guess we made each other real.
Deckard regarde alentours. Son portefeuille posé à côté de lui contient une photo de sa femme et de son fils.DECKARD (V.O.)
It was too late now. They would'nt give me papers for the Colonies even if I wanted them. It made me wonder more than ever what they do up there... I wondered who designs the ones like me... what choices we have... and which ones we just think we have.
La caméra zoome sur le visage tendu de Deckard.DECKARD (V.O.)
I wondered if I had really loved her. I wondered which of my memories were real and which belonged to someone else.
DECKARD (V.O.)
The great Tyrrell hadn't designed me, but whoever had, hadn't done so much better. 'You're programmed too,' she told me, and she was right. In my own modest way, I was a combat model. Roy Batty was my late brother.
DECKARD (V.O.)
I knew it on the roof that night. We were brothers, Roy Batty and I ! Combat models of the highest order. We had fought in wars not yet dreamed of... in vast nightmares still unnamed. We were the new people... Roy and me and Rachael ! We were made for this world. It was ours!
CREDITS ARE ROLLING, God help us all !
(j'ai honteusement repris un article de io9)
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I am by profession, a science fiction writer. I deal in fantasies. My life is a fantasy. (VALIS)
Philip K. Dick created almost a legend for himself of his disreputability: he built a palace of disreputability and moved inside it. At a certain level, I think he said 'You can't fire me -- I quit.' Even some of his most ambitious later books seem to be almost deliberately scarred by the inclusion of gestures, jokes, references that make them aliterary intentionally, as though he's saying 'Fuck you.' Or 'I don't have a passport into that world, but I'm free to do anything I want.'
A book as fundamentally literary as Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said -- very lyrical, very beautiful -- has moments where the surface breaks down into smutty jokes. In Ubik, somebody calls someone else a 'hobbit,' and it's this moment of self-loathing in-jokery that completely throws you out of the page, especially if you're trying to read him in a very literary context. And I think those moments of breakdown in the surface of his work are quite striking.
(source)Question : La folie est un thème central de vos livres. Vous avez écrit un essai Je suis vivant et vous êtes morts (Le Seuil, 1983) sur l’auteur américain de science-fiction Philip K. Dick qui souffrait de schizophrénie et de paranoïa…
Philip K. Dick était à la fois le malade et l’expert de sa propre maladie. Une posture qui rend son personnage fascinant. Cela et le caractère visionnaire de son œuvre. La grille de lecture qu’il a posée sur le réél est à mon avis toujours totalement opératoire. J’ai l’impression qu’on vit de plus en plus dans le monde de Philip K. Dick. C’est aussi quelqu’un qui a incarné l’esprit des années 60-70 en Californie avec tous les trips de l’époque, la drogue, les hippies. Cela prend, dans ses romans d’anticipation, une forme extraordinairement convaincante. (ndlr, parmi les films adaptés des livres de Philip K. Dick : Blade Runner de Ridley Scott et Minority Report de Steven Spielberg.)

Mise à jour : Il sort en France (en DVD) le 24 mars !
Deux éditions : l’une ne contient que la suite, l’autre les deux films. Et pour répondre à la question : oui, je vais l’acheter ![]()


Voilà que 2009 commence.
Nous allons sûrement avoir, plus l’année avancera, une actualité dickienne particulièrement chargée. Entre Ubik , King of the Elves et The Owl in Daylight qui devraient entrer en production et Radio Free Albemuth qui devrait sortir un de ces jours, nous aurons de quoi nous tenir occupés.
Nous aurons encore certainement aussi de nombreux textes à lire et à relire.
Alors laissez-moi vous adresser mes meilleurs vœux !