![]() ![]() When you thought about evolving it 30 years forward, tell me creatively what kind of stirred up in both of you to get it a future vision of a future we already know.įancher: The idea of the future … I dreamed up or asked questions of scientists or whatever. People like Michael and I grew up with it now embedded in our DNA: That's how we think of the future. The original film delivers such a tangible world, such a visionary view of the future. So then I found out much later that the French option had run out, whoever that French company was, and so Brian got it.įancher: Everything I've ever optioned was never more than $5,000. But, he went and talked to Dick and he got the rights for $2,000 for a year and a year option. I said, "That's a good idea," but I didn't think he'd actually get there. Dick and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and I sold that idea to him. I'm in the same fix, but I said to him, thinking it wouldn't lead to anything, that try Philip K. Then in '77, Brian Kelly, my dear friend, and one of the executive producers of this film, now dead, he was in a bad place and he didn't have any money - he had a little bit of money, and all he knew was film and he thought maybe if, like I thought before him, if he could option a property, he might turn it into a film that he could produce and then make a living and have a profession and all that. Then I found out after the fact that some French company at that point, in 1975 and '76, had already had that. He gave me the books, he said, " Here is what you want to do." He would never talk about Androids. So he was trying to get me to do Ubik and one other one. I found out later he had already sold those rights to someone else but never told me. RELATED: How Blade Runner 2049 Answers, "Is Deckard a Replicant"?įancher: I never got the rights. Green: How do you think you sold him, finally? What do you think made him finally agree to give you the rights? We did have reading in common, we liked certain authors and he was a very brilliant guy and he was fun. And I always had a woman with me, and he liked to talk. He acted like he liked me and he invited me back. I didn't know why he wasn't doing that, and I took it personally. I was never a fan.ĭid you interact much with him? Did you get a sense of who he was?įancher: I interacted three times with him, at his house each time, and I was after him to cooperate with me and he wasn't going to do that. And so I didn't have any love of Dick at all. It was like, "That's my way into wherever the gold is." It was that one thing, and that's all, and the idea that science fiction was going to become popular in the near future. I didn't have plots, and I was Antonini all the way. Because that's what I'd been lacking in everything I'd been trying. I was looking for a vehicle, and it was rather cold-blooded on my part. I enjoy him like unpacking a time capsule and really marveling at the pieces inside it.Īnd Hampton, you were the guy who recognized the cinematic value of Dick's story early on.įancher: Well it was one idea. He was of a generation of subculture that I was not a part of and was always more fantastical that it existed than anything that I can really speak to from experience. I think the prose is beautiful, the ideas are amazing, but it's one of those things that I always read intellectually instead of being able to experience emotionally. I have a hard time accessing Do Androids Dream specifically, and some of his other novels as well. There are a lot of science fiction writers I love. Green: I hope I won't disappoint to many by saying very little. Sometimes you're chasing a deadline, don't have that kind of time, but I made sure just to keep my head occupied with the right words. ![]() I won't get specific which, but there is one particular book that became a structural totem because it actually dealt with an investigator unearthing a many decades old case and how to keep it fresh and present, which was going to be the foundation of this.įor me there's always a totem book I'm reading or two, while writing something, and I never want to share which, just because I feel like it's trade secrets, but it was such an indulgence that I felt that this project was absolutely worth giving into, making sure to read while writing. I got to read for the first time Chandler and Hammett and Cain and let that inform me. RELATED: Niander Wallace's Master Plan in Blade Runner 2049, Explained it was a category that it was one of those “I'm going to get to,” and today was the day to start. And I realized that when starting on this, I realized I'd just not read the people. My background is probably the opposite of what Hampton just described, which is for me, sci-fi/fantasy, was my playground always and noir was a massive hole in my reading. Sometimes you get to walk into the toy store and they say, "Play with anything you want." This was one of those cases. ![]()
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