The Philip K. Dick train just keep on chugging. With THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU due to hit theaters in a few weeks and a remake of TOTAL RECALL on the horizon, the late, great author’s work keeps on giving to the Hollywood system. Now another one of the man’s works is being prepped, this time by a director who can frequently be just as “out there” as Dick’s tales.
Michel Gondry, helmer of a hundred music videos as well as films like ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND and the recently released GREEN HORNET, is apparently adapting Dick’s 1969 mindf*ck UBIK. I must admit that even though I read this book, it was years ago and the details are fuzzy. I do recall that it’s incredibly strange, but that’s just typical Dick. (Yes, you can giggle if you want to.)
Here’s a suitably mysterious synopsis: Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter’s business competitors. And, indeed, it’s the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering — and sometimes scatological — messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping in ways that suggest that their own time is running out. Or already has.
There’s no info on the film other than the Gondry news, so I guess we’ll have to take a wait and see approach to this one. If it does get made, it’s almost guaranteed to be so friggin’ weird that all of our heads will collectively explode upon viewing it.
ADJUSTMENT BUREAU star Emily Blunt
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