Philip K. Dick’s Vulcan’s Hammer is headed to the big screen, Variety reports.
Francis Lawrence will produce and direct a film based on Dick’s 1960 novel, which tells the story of a supercomputer that’s responsible for the fate of humanity.
Lawrence has previously directed a string of hit movies, including Constantine, I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Red Sparrow. He’s also set to direct The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, based on Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel novel.
Other producers of Vulcan’s Hammer include Bradley J. Fischer (Zodiac), Brian Oliver (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Cameron MacConomy (Red Sparrow), and Philip K. Dick’s daughter, Isa Dick Hackett.
“We’re very pleased to partner with the passionate team at New Republic and thrilled by Francis’s ambitious vision for bringing Vulcan’s Hammer to the big screen,” Hackett said.
Hackett has worked on adaptations of her father’s work before. She has served as executive producer on screen versions of Dick’s The Adjustment Bureau, Electric Dreams, and The Man in the High Castle.
Dick’s fiction has been adapted by others as well—Ridley Scott adapted the author’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into the iconic 1982 film Blade Runner, and Richard Linklater turned Dick’s A Scanner Darkly into a 2006 film of the same name.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
