[TheForge] Harlan the Dwarf

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Blade Runner was an OK movie, but my understanding was that Phillip K 
Dick was outraged at the adaptation.   After he died I heard that he had 
made nice with the producers, but felt that had he been alive he would 
have had a different opinion.   In any event the story and book bear 
little resemblance.

Charles

Ries Niemi wrote:

> 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