Week 8

Research the number of films that have been adapted from Philip K. Dick novels or short stories.

Blade Runner (1982), based on Dick's 1968 novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep?'

Total Recall (1990), based on the short story 'We can remember it for you wholesale'

Confessions d'un Barjo (1992), titled 'Barjo' in its English-language release, a French film based on Dick's non-science-fiction novel 'Confessions of a crap artist'

Screamers (1995), based on Dick's short story 'Second variety'

Minority Report (2002), based on Dick's short story of 'The minority report'

Out of this world (1962) which is British Anthology television series and Impostor (2002) are based on the Dick's 1953 story 'Impostor'

Paycheck (2003), based on Dick's short story of the same name

A scanner darkly (2006), based on Dick's novel of the same name

Next (2007), based on the short story 'The golden man'

(Wikipedia, n.d.)

Which have generally been acclaimed as trhe most successful? Why?

I was surprised by all of those are films based on his works. Unfortunately, I have heard of 'paycheck' and 'total recall' and the only thing i have watched is 'minority report' starring Tom Cruise. I think its a great science-fiction film and such a nice acting of him. It was huge back then, as i remember. I would say its the most famous and popular film ever made of reflecting his works in the last decade.

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Films_2