Philip K. Dick’s ‘Flow My Tears’ Off to the Big Screen

Yet another Philip K. Dick sci-fi novel is getting the feature film adaptation treatment.   ‘Flow My Tears’ will be based on the novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, the 1974 novel about identity loss.   Halcyon Co., the company behind ‘Terminator Salvation,’ picked up the rights to the novel back in ’07.   They are planning on making this the next project on their slate.

‘Flow My Tears’ tells the story of celebrity entertainer Jason Taverner, who, after a former lover throws a parasitic lifeform at him, awakes to find no one in the world has ever heard of him.

Dick’s works have been adapted for the big screen a number of times before.   Among films based, most of them loosely, on works by Philip K. Dick are ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Total Recall,’ and ‘Minority Report.’   Each of these films, even ‘Blade Runner,’ have been chastised in the past for taking huge liberties with Dick’s works.   ‘A Scanner Darkly’ seems to be the most faithful film to come out of one of Dick’s novels, but even that film doesn’t seem to be an exact interpretation.   Who knows what ‘Flow My Tears’ will have to offer.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter