…indie distributor IFC is considering releasing [Your Name Here].
“It’s now looking like it might be IFC,” Pullman said in a group interview on Dec. 2 in Culver City, Calif., where he was promoting Nobel Son. “That’s not certain yet, but finally it’s kind of gotten itself some legitimacy.”
Pullman added that the Philip K. Dick estate continues to scare off potential distributors. “Oh, they’re f–king after us,” he said. “We’re like the cockroach they can’t kill. Yeah, the DICK estate. They’re looking to dick us all. The irony is that he, in his lifetime, had really no cash that he could count on regularly. It was unpredictable. He got to the set of Blade Runner, so he knew something was happening, but he didn’t make money. The children–this is a wealthy estate, because his stories are really the cornerstone of contemporary science fiction for a lot of people, with Total Recall and Minority Report, all those movies that have come from him. There’s more being made and developed. They’re selling rights, so they’re very wealthy, and they are protecting their asset, I guess, in some way.”
The film portrays the final days of the author as a sort of Philip K. Dick-esque reality bender. “It’s eccentric, narratively adventurous,” Pullman said. “It’s like I’m Not There is to Bob Dylan, this is to Philip K. Dick. [It is set] in his last days, determining did he write this last chapter of this book that explains it all that took him 10 years to write, or didn’t he write it? Or did the FBI steal it, or did his ex-wives collude to take it from him? It’s a lot of his genius reflected in the story.”
One issue the estate has raised is that the film portrays Dick as a drug user. “Apparently, he never took drugs in his lifetime,” Pullman said. “Ha ha ha. We didn’t know that, so we actually were showing Philip K. Dick indulging vigorously. Apparently that never happened.”
Just to be safe, the film named Pullman’s character William J. Frick. —Fred Topel
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