Jodo Kast Jan 5, 2009
The recent interpretation of The Day the Earth Stood Still made me curious about where these (sci-fi) movies are coming from, so I've been making a list these past few days. I left out really obvious ones, like 2001 (I would suppose it's common knowledge that Clarke wrote it, due to the fact Kubrick directed it and made it very popular), and I'm more interested in less obvious ones.
The format is: movie / year
story name / author / year
A Scanner Darkly / 2006
A Scanner Darkly / Philip K. Dick / 1977
Alien / 1979 (ideas borrowed from multiple stories and many other movies)
Junkyard / Clifford Simak / 1953
Strange Relations / Philip Jose Farmer / 1960
Voyage of the Space Beagle / A. E. van Vogt / 1950 (main basis for movie)
(Note: A. E. van Vogt threatened to sue the producers and they acknowledged they used his stories by settling out of court.)
Bicentennial Man / 1999
The Bicentennial Man / Isaac Asimov / 1976
Blade Runner / 1982
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Philip K. Dick / 1968
(Note: Dick’s friend K. W. Jeter has written 3 official sequels to Blade Runner.)
The Day the Earth Stood Still / 1951, 2008
Farewell to the Master / Harry Bates / 1940
Deathwatch / 1980
The Continuous Katherine Mortonhoe / David Compton / 1974
Freejack / 1992
Immortality, Inc. / Robert Sheckley / 1958
From Beyond / 1986
From Beyond / H.P. Lovecraft / 1920
The Last Man on Earth / 1964, The Omega Man / 1971, I Am Legend / 2007
I Am Legend / Richard Matheson / 1954
Impostor / 2001
Impostor / Philip K. Dick / 1953
Millennium / 1989
Air Raid / John Varley / 1977
Minority Report / 2002
The Minority Report / Philip K. Dick / 1956
Next / 2007
The Golden Man / Philip K. Dick / 1954
Paycheck / 2003
Paycheck / Philip K. Dick / 1953
Planet of the Apes / 1968, 2001
Planet of the Apes / Pierre Boulle / 1963
(Note: The screenplay for the 1968 theatrical version was written by Rod Serling.)
Re-Animator / 1985
Herbert West: Reanimator / H.P. Lovecraft / 1922
The Running Man / 1987
The Running Man / Stephen King / 1982
Screamers / 1995
Second Variety / Philip K. Dick / 1953
Solaris / 1972, 2002
Solaris / Stanislaw Lem / 1961
Stalker / 1979
Roadside Picnic / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky / 1977
The Terminator / 1984
Soldier from Tomorrow / Harlan Ellison / 1957
(Note: Philip K. Dick’s “Vulcan’s Hammer (1960)” is not the basis, but very similar.)
They Live / 1988
Eight O’Clock in the Morning / Ray Nelson / 1963
The Thing / 1951, 1982
Who Goes There? / John Campbell / 1938
Total Recall / 1990
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale / Philip K. Dick / 1966
