"Total Recall," "Blade Runner," "Minority Report," "Paycheck" – for years Hollywood has mined the twisted tales of science-fiction author Philip K. Dick to craft blockbuster movies. Now, seemingly, it's the author's own life that's all the rage.

While "Your Name Here," an unlicensed biography starring Bill Pullman and Taryn Manning, eyes a Sundance debut, Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti is setting his sights on a competing Dick project, titled "The Owl in Daylight."

"There's a guy writing a script right now," Giamatti told us.

The "The Owl in Daylight," which Dick was unable to finish before his death in 1982, is a complicated tale that involves Ed Firmley, a B-movie composer, a race of aliens that have evolved without the ability to hear sounds, and our deeply held believes about art, happiness, and, oh yeah, heaven. You know, light stuff.

But if reading the wiki synopsis makes the story sound complicated, that's nothing compared to how Giamatti and Co. are handling Dick's life – as a sort of Charlie Kauffman-esque experiment in blurring fiction and reality. Read more...

With only one day until Halloween our inner misfit runs wild, with news today from such troublemakers as Will Ferrell, Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Russell Crowe and the Joker himself.

- Will Ferrell jokingly calls "Land of the Lost" remake a "nature documentary," before stating that it will be "real" and "hopefully funny." (ComingSoon)

- Sean Penn and Heath Ledger in talks to star in Terrence Malick’s "Tree of Life." (Hollywood Reporter)

- "Halo" movie may have found an extra life. (AICN)

- Like rain on your wedding day. Alanis Morissette joins cast of Philip K. Dick biography "Radio Free Albemuth." (Hollywood Reporter)

- David Cronenberg to direct "The Talking Cure"? (Obsessed with Film)

- American Gangster? Yeah right. Try Australian Missionary. Just for fun an old ad for a ministry college starring a young Russell Crowe. (YouTube)

Reporting by Sharon Hong

In films like "Hustle & Flow," "8 Mile" and "Crossroads," Taryn Manning always seems to play morally-tenuous women finding drama through sex and drugs. For her recently-wrapped flick, Your Name Here," however, she traded tears for tech.

"It's being submitted to Sundance," she said excitedly when she stopped by MTV's Los Angeles studio last week. "It's a movie that me and Bill Pullman did, and I play Victoria Principal."

Portraying the sexpot "Dallas" star, Manning plays opposite Pullman as a doppleganger version of eccentric sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, whose novels about time travel, androids and alternate universes have yielded such classics as "Minority Report," "Total Recall," and "Blade Runner." Read more...

Actor Bill Pullman is bringing the whirlwind life of visionary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick to the big screen...sort of. The film "Your Name Here" -- previously known as "Panasonic -- will tell the story of an enigmatic writer named "William J. Frick" in the non-libel, unsanctioned biopic of the classic storyteller.

In a role that the "Independence Day" star says is one of his favorite projects, Pullman will portray a slightly modified version of the man whose vast collection of futuristic short stories have fueled such Hollywood adaptations as "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" and "A Scanner Darkly" (as well as less-than-stellar efforts like "Paycheck" and "Next").

According to Pullman, the film will focus on Frick as he arrives at the end of his life. "It's about a kind of a 'Fantasia' about his last days," he revealed. "You're seeing a writer who's starting to spin a little bit out of control and wondering what's real and what isn't real. Has he really written the most brilliant book that's ever been written or hasn't he? Has someone stolen the last chapter, or is he just insane?"

"Your Name Here" is currently in post-production, with hopes of premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in mid-September.