Philip K. Dick was an American author known for his science fiction works, often with dystopian and drug related themes. Some of his works have gone on to be adapted to films and series garnering much acclaim, such as the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner, which was an adaptation of Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, released three months posthumously to Dick's passing. The only adaptation released in his lifetime was a 1962 episode of the UK TV series Out of This World, based on Dick's 1953 short story "Impostor". Other works such as the films Total Recall, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly have also gone on to critical or commercial success, while television adaptations such as The Man in the High Castle has gone on to long-form television adaptation successfully. In 2017, following the success of Netflix's science fiction short story series Black Mirror, and its own success with The Man in the High Castle, streaming service Amazon Prime Video paired up with Channel 4 to produce a series of short stories originally released between 1953 and 1955 under the series title Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, the only adaptation bearing the author's own name. The following is a list of film and television adaptations of his writings.[1]
| Source work | Film Adaptation | TV Adaptation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Published | Type | Title | Released | Director | Series or Episode Title | Aired | ||
| data-sort-value="hood maker, The" | 1953 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | 2017 | |||||
| data-sort-value="Commuter, The" | 1953 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | 2017 | |||||
| data-sort-value="Hanging Stranger, The" | 1953 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' "Kill All Others" episode | 2017 | |||||
| 1953 | Short story | Screamers---- | 1995----2009 | Christian Duguay----Sheldon Wilson | |||||
| 1953 | Short story | Paycheck | 2003 | ||||||
| 1953 | Short story | Impostor | 2002 | 1962 | |||||
| 1954 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' "Crazy Diamond" episode | 2017 | ||||||
| 1954 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' "Real Life" episode | 2017 | ||||||
| data-sort-value="Father thing, The" | 1954 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams episode | 2017 | |||||
| 1954 | Short story | data-sort-value="Adjustment bureau, The" | The Adjustment Bureau | 2011 | George Nolfi | ||||
| data-sort-value="golden man, The" | 1954 | Short story | Next | 2007 | |||||
| data-sort-value="Crystal crypt, The" | 1954 | Short story | data-sort-value="Crystal crypt, The" | The Crystal Crypt | 2013 | ||||
| data-sort-value="Impossible planet, The" | 1955 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams | 2017 | |||||
| 1955 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams episode | 2017 | ||||||
| 1955 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams episode | 2017 | ||||||
| 1955 | Short story | Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' "Safe and Sound" episode | 2017 | ||||||
| data-sort-value="Minority Report, The" | The Minority Report | 1956 | Short story | Minority Report | 2002 | Minority Report | 2015 | ||
| data-sort-value="man in the high castle, The" | The Man in the High Castle | 1962 | Novel | data-sort-value="man in the high castle, The" | The Man in the High Castle | 2015[2] [3] | |||
| 1966 | Short story | ---- | 1990----2012 | ---- | Total Recall 2070 | 1999 | |||
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | 1968 | Novel | Blade Runner----Blade Runner 2049 | 1982----2017 | ---- | ||||
| Confessions of a Crap Artist | 1975 | Novel | Confessions d'un Barjo | 1992 | |||||
| Radio Free Albemuth | 1976 | Novel | Radio Free Albemuth | 2010 | John Alan Simon | ||||
| A Scanner Darkly | 1977 | Novel | A Scanner Darkly | 2006 | |||||