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TERMINATOR Owners Buy Phillip K. Dick Rights
By: Jarrod Sarafin, News EditorDate: Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Source: Variety
The Halcyon Company who recently purchased the TERMINATOR franchise rights have expanded their library to Phillip K. Dick material rights for the next three years, says Variety. With over 120 short stories and 45 novels, they have plenty of choices for adaptations of their choosing, adaptations which haven't already been done by now (like Bladerunner). In a roundabout way, the company has already adapted one of his works already though it is through connections of long bankrupt production companies. The Halcyon are frequent partners with the newly established C2 Entertainment. They're adapting the Sarah Connor Chronicles and this new Terminator trilogy, which begins this month, alongside C2. Who runs that production company? Mario Kassar and Andrew Vajna, the long time executives of Carolco Productions and Tristar, two companies who oversaw another Phillip K. Dick work, Total Recall.
"Only a tiny, tiny portion of his work has been tapped," said Halcyon co-CEOs Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson.
As far as a first candidate for adapting from this newly acquired library? They cited interest in the novel "Ubik" as a first possibility.
Plot Concept for Ubik: First published in 1969, the story centers on an explosion orchestrated by Runciter's business competitors which does indeed kill the kingly Runciter. While his funeral is scheduled in Des Moines, 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.
