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Several of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) has had several of his stories adapted for the big screen. Richard Linklater's take on A Scanner Darkly being the most recent example...

Now comes word that a biopic is being prepped about the man himself. And as an avid reader of PKD-- I couldn't be happier about who may play him in the film.

Pamela McClintock of Variety shares the good news:

Paul Giamatti is in negotiations to star as sci-fi author Philip K. Dick in an untitled biopic that his newly launched [production company] Touchy Feely Films is producing with Anonymous Content.

Authorized biopic also is being produced by the Philip K. Dick Estate through its Electric Shepherd Prods.

Tony Grisoni ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas") will write the screenplay.

Dick, who died in 1982, penned more than four dozen books and numerous short stories, with at least seven being adapted for the big screen, including "Blade Runner," "Total Recall" and "Minority Report"...

The nontraditional biopic will interweave the prolific author's life with his fiction and incorporate elements of his last unfinished novel, "The Owl in Daylight."...

Giamatti is onscreen in M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" and provides one of the voices in "The Ant Bully."...

As a fan of actor Paul Giamatti, I think that he will do very well in the role--Anything to get rid of that horrible aftertaste left over by Lady in the Water [Shiver]!!!