The daily production diary and behind-the-scenes photos of the documentary, The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick, can now be found on philipKdick.com, a web site devoted to the ideas of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Filmmakers Mark Steensland and Andy Massagli, currently shooting in California, hope to finish the project by April, to coincide with pre-release publicity of the Dimension film Imposter starring Gary Sinise and based on a Philip K. Dick short story, due in theaters August 4.

The philipKdick.com web site also contains information on past films based on Philip K. Dick's fiction, such as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Screamers, as well as on Imposter and the upcoming Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg production of Minority Report. In addition, the site contains reviews, artwork, literary criticism, original fiction, streaming media programs, biography, and bibliography. Message boards, email lists, and online book ordering make the web site a focus for the community of Philip K. Dick's fans.

Philip K. Dick, who died in 1982 following a series of strokes, left behind a legacy of more than fifty novels, five volumes of short stories, reams of correspondence, and an 8,000 page self-examination he called his Exegesis explaining, he hoped, the mystical experiences which form the heart of the Steensland/Massagli film and a great deal of Dick's own later fiction. ``We're talking to people who knew him before, during and after all that stuff to see what we can find out,'' says Steensland about his and Massagli's approach to the film.

Posted March 1, 2000