Visionary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick has had a number of his works adapted for the big screen posthumously, some of which turned out to be masterpieces, and some of which just turned out to be plain old pieces. From Blade Runner and Minority Report to Paycheck and Next, his stories tend to have some cool ideas in them, but it really all depends on how the filmmakers choose to execute them.
Recently there has been a new Philip K. Dick project attracting a lot of attention throughout Hollywood, mainly because it also happens to have Matt Damon attached in the lead role. Last week, Universal Pictures decided to pony up and acquire the film, which is called The Adjustment Bureau (Based on the book; Adjustment Team).
The movie is to be directed by George Nolfi who has written screenplays for Timeline, Ocean’s Twelve, The Sentinel, and The Bourne Ultimatum, but has never directed a film himself.
According to Wikipedia Adjustment Team is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Orbit Science Fiction in 1954, and later published in The Book of Philip K. Dick in 1992, and in Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick in 2002.
Ed Fletcher, a real estates salesman, finds out that our world is really, in effect, one big soundstage controlled by strange and mysterious guardians. The plot is very similar to the 1998 science fiction film Dark City and other works suggesting the idea of a manufactured reality.
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