The July 29 entry on Production Weekly reports that Bill Pullman is engaged in talks to land the plum role of legendary scifi author Philip K. Dick in a comic flick about the writer and his unique psyche.

Details are thin as the producers of this indie production haven't yet seen fit to list the film in IMDb's database. The movie is currently entitled Panasonic (very non-PKD) which will be hell for them come search engine marketing time. Shooting is scheduled to begin next month with musician Matthew "Break My Stride" Wilder taking the director's chair.

The logline goes something like "A fictional account of science fiction author Philip K. Dick journeying into his own psychedelic mind and putting an innocent robot out of work." Seeing as the lost Robot PKD's head has yet to surface, maybe this is a little more autobiographical than they're implying.

I'm hopeful Pullman has the gift that will channel PKD right out of the hand-written Exegesis Dick compiled about his mystical experiences with an intense higher being he called the God-VALIS-Zebra entity. The details and writings of Dick's life of drugs, urban gnosticism and open-minded paranoia in the 70's somehow seem to provide a rich and unique commentary on current events and ideas. And obviously such things as movies.

No word yet on who's playing VALIS or the Dark-Haired Girl.

Movies | Bill Pullman | Philip K. Dick | PKD
Panasonic | Matthew Wilder | Independent Films

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