[TheForge] Harlan the Dwarf

Gladish Family gladish at cnw.com
Thu Jun 16 10:25:14 EDT 2005


Harlan Ellison permanently warped my young mind with the Dangerous 
Visions collection which I read at age twelve...the damage was done!
Andy G

Ries Niemi wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, June 15, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Roy Wilson wrote:
>
>>
>> ======= On 2005-06-15, at 15:31:00 Ries Niemi wrote: =======
>>
>>> Actually, the way to think about it is "The Harlan Ellison Film".
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>     The movie *Bladerunner* was a teleplay of his *Do Androids Dream 
>> of Electric Sheep*.
>>
>> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>>
>
>
> 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
>
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