Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said Headed to Big Screen

Philip K. Dick is still a popular man in Hollywood. And why not? Pretty much every single one of his stories that have made it onto the big screen have been hits. Sure, most of them don’t resemble the original stories when all is said and done, but the killer premise is what sells them to the audience. The latest Dick story to get the big-screen treatment, courtesy of The Halycon Company (the same folks behind the “Terminator Salvation” movie) is “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”, the story of celebrityhood, assassinations, and other cool sci-fi stuff.

According to THR, the film is set in a futuristic, dystopian world (where else?), and centers on a celebrity who wakes up after an assassination attempt to find that no one has ever heard of him. Which, if you’re keeping track, is not a good thing for someone used to the limelight, free dinners, and quickies with extras on movie sets.

Previous Dick stories that have made it onto the big screen and become hits include “Blade Runner,” “Total Recall,” and “Minority Report”. “A Scanner Darkly” is probably the least successful of the bunch. Other Dick stories already headed to the big screen include “The Adjustment Bureau” with Matt Damon, and a possible remake of “Total Recall”.