...I want to read that script. And PKD's version too, because apparently he wrote a screenplay for Ubik himself:

http://www.sfsite.com/10a/ub281.htm

And I really, really want there to be an Ubik film especially after reading this snippet from its foreword that my friend sent me:

According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay (by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer), Dick had an idea for the film which involved "the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside."

And in unrelated off-topicness:

"Blade Runner" went through a number of script revisions before Dick was happy with it. Hampton Fancher's original screenplay enraged him. "They had cleaned my book up of all the subtleties and of the meaning," he told Twilight Zone magazine at the time. "I had this vision that I would go up there and watch a scene being shot, and Harrison Ford would say, 'Lower that blast-pistol or you're a dead android!' And I'd be screaming, 'You've destroyed my book!' That would be a little item in the newspaper: 'Obscure Author Becomes Psychotic on H'wood Set; Minor Damage, Mostly to the Author.'"

come to think about it, I think I made a confusion earlier, with "The Three Stigmata..." and Linklater. So it's Ubik he was talking about...

I'm not too happy with "Blade Runner" myself, at least with big parts of it.
it IS early cyberpunk and noir and all that, and it's a great movie in itself... but it's NOT Dick's book.

and the Hollywood ending made me grit my teeth. Although it works just fine - provided one didn't read the story.

But it was Rutger, what can I say?

actually, his Roy - the character's personality, the lines, everything - is closer to the 'original' PKD story than any other character. ok, ok, the script and the director have a contribution to this;) while Ford's Deckard is more of a tribute to Bogart ( and the rest of the bunch) than anything else. Replicant, my hat ;) for me, the story works only if Deckart is really human.

what can I say? I have a (slight) problem with the oh-so-typical hero-gets-the-girl Hollywood endings. ;)

but I like the closing line ;)
and that's not PKD.
don't know who put that in the script, but it's one heck of a line ;) :D

What was the last line that was added?

the film is dark indeed, but it's definitely worth watching.

the line is " too bad she won't live. But then again, who does ?"