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Variance: a screenplay by Deenur
Philip K Dick has had a number of stories made into films. This is one story that fans, on a number of fans sites, have been calling for. Producers have a built-in audience. This feature length script is an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick short novel which has fallen into public domain status.
The original story had no characters of color. In my adaption, Thomas Cole is a black American and the lead scientist that aids him is an athletic, jiu jitsu practicing Hispanic female. Both changes have strengthened the story.
Terra finds itself in a cold war with Proxima Centauri, trying to find a way of breaking free from their control. Terra continually designs concept weapons to give them a combat advantage, but Proxima Centauri is also updates its defenses, gaining information through spies. Terra calculates their chances to win a war versus Centauri based on output from their probability computers. Terra comes up with a concept for a an indefensible faster-than-light bomb called Icarus. The odds of victory tip in Terra’s favor, and Terra prepares to launch, but the FTL bomb’s delicate guidance system is having problems, and does not work properly.
Meanwhile, Thomas Cole accidentally arrives in this future. He has a genius aptitude to fix things, and his presence in the future throws the probability computers out of whack. The Terran security forces, who want to start the war and break free of Centauran control, attempt to hunt down Cole to kill him, and end the variance in the computers. The lead scientist working on the FTL bomb finds Cole first and convinces him to help out. Cole says that Icarus could potentially work, although it may not be the way that anyone wanted.
The original story had no characters of color. In my adaption, Thomas Cole is a black American and the lead scientist that aids him is an athletic, jiu jitsu practicing Hispanic female. Both changes have strengthened the story.
Terra finds itself in a cold war with Proxima Centauri, trying to find a way of breaking free from their control. Terra continually designs concept weapons to give them a combat advantage, but Proxima Centauri is also updates its defenses, gaining information through spies. Terra calculates their chances to win a war versus Centauri based on output from their probability computers. Terra comes up with a concept for a an indefensible faster-than-light bomb called Icarus. The odds of victory tip in Terra’s favor, and Terra prepares to launch, but the FTL bomb’s delicate guidance system is having problems, and does not work properly.
Meanwhile, Thomas Cole accidentally arrives in this future. He has a genius aptitude to fix things, and his presence in the future throws the probability computers out of whack. The Terran security forces, who want to start the war and break free of Centauran control, attempt to hunt down Cole to kill him, and end the variance in the computers. The lead scientist working on the FTL bomb finds Cole first and convinces him to help out. Cole says that Icarus could potentially work, although it may not be the way that anyone wanted.
124 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2024
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