[TheForge] Harlan the Dwarf

[Ries Niemi]

On Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Roy Wilson wrote:

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> ======= On 2005-06-15, at 15:31:00 Ries Niemi wrote: =======
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>> Actually, the way to think about it is "The Harlan Ellison Film".
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>> Although he wrote a lot of tv shows, as far as I know this is the only
>> Harlan Ellison story ever made into a feature film.
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> 	The movie *Bladerunner* was a teleplay of his *Do Androids Dream of 
> Electric Sheep*.
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ROY- you may be the emperor- but you got your science fiction writers 
mixed up.

Androids was a story by Phillip K. Dick, who once he was safely dead, 
has proven to be a gold mine for Hollywood.
In addition to Bladerunner,  something like 5 other movies have been 
based on his short stories-

Minority Report, Total Recall, that creepy killer machine movie with 
the Robocop actor- the one with sentient saw blades running thru the 
ground and cutting you up...
And at least a couple more- I think they are making another Phillip K 
Dick movie right now.

But Harlan, although he wrote a lot of tv shows, including some Star 
Trek's, just never made it on the big screen.

ries