It’s an exciting time in filmland for Philip K. Dick fans. Next month, Universal Pictures will release  The Adjustment Bureau, written and directed by George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum), which is based on a short story (Adjustment Team) penned by the legendary sci-fi writer, starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

Columbia Pictures recently announced that Len Wiseman (Underworld) would be directing their re-imagining of Total Recall. The film will be a new, contemporized adaptation of the original Total Recall, which was based on Dick’s novelette, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale“. That film will star Colin Farrell (Fright Night, Horrible Bosses) as the main character, Douglas Quaid.

Now, Deadline reports that Michel Gondry (Green Hornet) is set to direct the big-screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick‘s 1969 book, Ubik. The book which was called one of the 100 greatest novels of all-time by Time Magazine.

Plot Summary:

Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everybody else? Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter’s business competitors. And, indeed, it’s the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines. But in the meantime, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering — and sometimes scatological — messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping in ways that suggest that their own time is running out. Or already has.

Philip K. Dick’s searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation (the latter available in a convenient aerosol spray) is tour de force of paranoiac menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

No production or release dates have been confirmed.