"Anderton's advice to his successor: ""Better keep your eyes open. It might happen to you at any time."" The story reflects many of Philip K. Dick's personal Cold War anxieties, particularly questioning the relationship between authoritarianism and individual autonomy. Like many stories dealing with knowledge of future events, ""The Minority Report"" questions the existence of free will. In 2002, the story was adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell and Max von Sydow. Spielberg's film was followed by a series of the same name, which debuted on the FOX Network on September 21,"
"Themes in Minority Report The plot of the 2002 science fiction neo-noir film ""Minority Report"" concerns itself with a number of themes. The film's plot centers around a trio of psychics called ""precogs"", who see future images called ""previsions"" of crimes yet to be committed. These images are processed by ""Precrime"", a specialized police department, which apprehends the criminals based on the precogs' . The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess. The"
"Minority Report"", which hypothesizes about a future where a crime can be solved before it is committed—in the movie, the clairvoyants would be Martian mutants. In 1994, producer Mario Kassar spoke with director Ronny Yu about possibly helming the sequel. In 1998, actor-director Jonathan Frakes was also attached to the follow-up. The sequel was not filmed, but the script survived and it was changed drastically and contained greater elements from the original short story. The story was eventually adapted into the Steven Spielberg sci-fi thriller ""Minority Report"", which opened in 2002 to commercial success. In February 2009, ""The Hollywood Reporter"""
"he wrote Agatha and her mother's back stories while adding the bathtub scene. Themes in Minority Report The plot of the 2002 science fiction neo-noir film ""Minority Report"" concerns itself with a number of themes. The film's plot centers around a trio of psychics called ""precogs"", who see future images called ""previsions"" of crimes yet to be committed. These images are processed by ""Precrime"", a specialized police department, which apprehends the criminals based on the precogs' . The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the"
"year 2054 who has been foreseen to murder a man he has not yet met. The film received strong reviews with the review tallying website Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 92% approval rating, reporting that 206 out of the 225 reviews they tallied were positive. The film earned over $358 million worldwide. Roger Ebert, who named it the best film of 2002, praised its breathtaking vision of the future as well as for the way Spielberg blended CGI with live-action. Spielberg's 2002 film ""Catch Me If You Can"" is about the daring adventures of a youthful con artist (played by"
"2002 film ""Minority Report"". House of Bamboo House of Bamboo is a 1955 American film noir shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. It was directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller. The film is a loose remake of ""The Street with No Name"" (1948), using the same screenwriter (Harry Kleiner) and cinematographer (Joseph MacDonald). In 1954, a military train guarded by American soldiers and Japanese police is attacked as it travels between Kyoto and Tokyo. During the raid, which is carried out with great precision, an American sergeant is killed, and the train's cargo of guns and ammunition is stolen. The"
"adapted into films. Also released in audio book form containing only five stories, read by Keir Dullea) The Minority Report ""The Minority Report"" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ""Fantastic Universe"". In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these ""precogs"" allow the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering Leopold Kaplan, a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great"
"and Shusett co-wrote a screen adaptation of Philip K. Dick's story, ""The Minority Report"", to serve as a possible sequel to the film. Although their screenplay was not used, the 2002 film, ""Minority Report"", has a sequence set in a car factory, which was adapted from their early script. In the end, Goldman didn't receive a writing credit, but was listed as an executive producer of the film. By 2003, Goldman's career had slowed down, and manager Lenny Beckerman suggested that he adapt another Philip K. Dick story. Goldman had a good relationship with the Dick estate and was able"
"The Minority Report ""The Minority Report"" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ""Fantastic Universe"". In a future society, three mutants foresee all crime before it occurs. Plugged into a great machine, these ""precogs"" allow the Precrime Division to arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm. When the head of Precrime, John A. Anderton, is accused of murdering Leopold Kaplan, a man whom he has never met, Anderton is convinced a great conspiracy is afoot. His new assistant, Ed Witwer, must have corrupted the system in an attempt to"
"other science fiction films, and some of the technology designs in the film have proven prescient. ""Minority Report"" has a unique visual style. It uses high contrast to create dark colors and shadows, much like a film noir picture. The film's overlit shots feature desaturated colors which were achieved by bleach-bypassing the film's negative in post-production. ""Minority Report"" was one of the best-reviewed films of 2002 and was nominated for several awards. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing, and eleven Saturn Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Saturn Award for Best Music, winning"
"part in Steven Spielberg science fiction thriller ""Minority Report"", opposite Tom Cruise. In the film, set in a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, Morton played Agatha, a senior precog. Although critics felt she was ""slightly typecast"" in her role of ""feral, near-mute victim"", ""Minority Report"" was a critical success and grossed US$358 million, emerging as Morton's highest-grossing film until ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" (2016). She won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Empire Award for Best British Actress. Morton followed with the title"
"His photographs have appeared in ""Life"" and other American national magazines. Kelly's book-length publication, """" (1994), presents a view on the mechanisms of complex organization. The central theme of the book is that several fields of contemporary science and philosophy point in the same direction: intelligence is not organized in a centralized structure but much more like a bee-hive of small simple components. Kelly applies this view to bureaucratic organisations, intelligent computers, and to the human brain. Kelly was a futurist adviser on the Steven Spielberg directed movie ""Minority Report"". Kevin Kelly (editor) Kevin Kelly (born August 14, 1952) is"
"December 2016, with a third season announced a few weeks later to be released in 2018. In late 2015, Fox aired ""Minority Report"", a television series sequel adaptation to the 2002 film of the same name based on Dick's 1956 short story ""The Minority Report"". The show was cancelled after one 10 episode season. In May 2016, it was announced that a 10-part anthology series was in the works. Titled ""Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams"", the series will be distributed by Sony Pictures Television and premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and Amazon Video in the United States."
"Blade Runner 2049 Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. A sequel to the 1982 film ""Blade Runner"", the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Ford and Edward James Olmos reprise their roles from the original film. Set thirty years after the first film, Gosling plays K, a blade runner who uncovers a secret that threatens to instigate a war between"
"The A.R.K. Report The A.R.K. Report – Secret for the Century is a 2013 action-adventure sci-fi short film and television pilot produced by Canadian-Israeli research professor, Harry Moskoff and directed by Shmuel Hoffman. The lead actress is Katy Castaldi who plays Karmi. The lead actor is Pascal Yen-Pfister who plays Roth. The film takes place in a dystopian future, and follows a young woman (Karmi) who stumbles across her personal destiny as the only one who can find the ancient Ark of the Covenant and keep it out of the hands of those that want to use it for evil."
"critical and commercial successes. The following year Cruise starred in the romantic thriller ""Vanilla Sky"" (2001) with Cameron Diaz and Penélope Cruz. In 2002, Cruise starred in the dystopian science fiction thriller ""Minority Report"" which was directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. In 2003, he starred in Edward Zwick's historical drama ""The Last Samurai"", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for best actor. In 2005, Cruise worked again with Steven Spielberg in ""War of the Worlds"", a loose adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel of the same"
"2014. Bonnie Curtis Bonnie Kathleen Curtis (born March 26, 1966) is an American film producer whose credits include ""Saving Private Ryan"", ""A.I."", ""Minority Report"", and """", directed by Steven Spielberg. Her first solo project was the 2005 release ""The Chumscrubber"". She then joined Mockingbird Pictures with partner Julie Lynn in 2011. Curtis and Lynn produced ""Albert Nobbs"", which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Curtis is a co-recipient of the 1999 Producers Guild Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, for ""Saving Private Ryan"". On March 12, 2015, Curtis was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Spielberg"
"to break even. Despite the outward optimism, as a more adult-oriented, darker film than typical blockbusters, the studio held different box office expectations for the movie than they would a more family friendly film. ""Entertainment Weekly"" projected the film would gross $40 million domestic in its opening weekend, and ""Variety"" predicted that the high concept storyline would not appeal to children and would render it a ""commercial extra-base hit rather than a home run."" ""Minority Report's"" world premiere took place in New York City on June 19, 2002. An online ""popcorn cam"" broadcast live from inside the premiere. Cruise attended"
"Sentinel 2099 Sentinel 2099 is a 1995 American apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Michael McGee. The cast includes Sam Bishop, Chris Carlson, Daniel Duff, Todd huffman, Leon Jester, Michael Mansfield, and Jodie Whitley. Director: Michael McGee. Starring: Sam Bishop, Chris Carlson, Daniel Duff, Todd Huffman, Leon Jester, Michael Mansfield, Judie Whitley. Released: 1995. Runtime: 75 minutes. Language: English. Country: United States. In the post apocalyptic world of the 21st century the Unified Commonwealth struggles to restore civilization to the survivors of the Great Plague. A constant state of war exists as the female dominated army of the Commonwealth must"
"2036. In the screenplay, or ""treatment"" that Wells published in 1935, before the film was released, the story ends in the year ""A.D. 2054"". Wells is sometimes incorrectly assumed to have had a degree of control over the project that was unprecedented for a screenwriter, and personally supervised nearly every aspect of the film. Posters and the main title bill the film as ""H. G. Wells' Things to Come"", with ""an Alexander Korda production"" appearing in smaller type. In fact, Wells ultimately had no control over the finished product, with the result that many scenes, although shot, were either truncated"
"one of the greatest films of the 2000s and one of the major works of Asian cinema, and in 2016 was voted as the second best film of the 21st century by 177 film critics from around the world. The movie forms the second part of an informal trilogy: The first part was ""Days of Being Wild"" (released in 1990) and the last part was ""2046"" (released in 2004). The story takes place in an exiled Shanghainese community of Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung), a journalist, rents a room in an apartment of a building on the"
"Impostor (film) Impostor is a 2002 American science fiction film based upon the 1953 short story ""Impostor"" by Philip K. Dick. The film starred Gary Sinise, Madeleine Stowe, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Mekhi Phifer and was directed by Gary Fleder. The film takes place in the year 2079. Forty-five years earlier, Earth was attacked by a hostile and implacable alien civilization from Alpha Centauri. Force shield domes are put in place to protect cities, and a totalitarian global military government is established to effect the war and the survival of humans. The Centaurians have never been physically seen. The film follows"
"liberation movement. ""Enemy Mine"" demonstrated that the foes we have come to hate are often just like us, even if they appear alien. Contemporary science fiction films continue to explore social and political issues. One recent example is ""Minority Report"" (2002), debuting in the months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and focused on the issues of police powers, privacy and civil liberties in a near-future United States. Some movies like ""The Island"" (2005) and ""Never Let Me Go"" (2010) explore the issues surrounding cloning. More recently, the headlines surrounding events such as the Iraq War, international terrorism,"
"Smallpox 2002 Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon is a fictional docudrama produced by Wall to Wall, showing how a single act of bioterrorism leads to terrifying consequences globally. The premise of it was one man who, in 2002, creates the smallpox virus himself, infects himself, and touches ten people in New York City. This eventually leads to a pandemic across the world that is later defeated, but not before 60 million people are killed. The film was commissioned before the September 11 attacks and is presented in the form of a fictional documentary, including false interviews and stock footage. The tagline"
"(NPR) published an August 2010 podcast which analyzed the film's accuracy in predicting future technologies. Multi-touch interfaces, similar to Anderton's, have been put out by Microsoft (2007), Obscura Digital (2008), MIT (2009), Intel (2009), and Microsoft again, this time for their Xbox 360 (2010). A company representative, at the 2007 premiere of the then Microsoft Surface (later renamed to Microsoft PixelSense,) promised it ""will feel like Minority Report,"" and when Microsoft released the Kinect motion sensing camera add-on for their Xbox 360 gaming console in 2010, the Kinect's technology allowed several programmers, including students at MIT, to create ""Minority Report"""
"to give people who are separated by great distances the illusion that they are physically together. Lanier is a member of the Global Business Network, part of the Monitor Group. He has appeared in several documentaries, including the 1992 Danish television documentary ""Computerbilleder – udfordring til virkeligheden"" (Eng. Computer Pictures - A Challenge to Reality), the 1995 documentary ""Synthetic Pleasures"", and the 2004 television documentary ""Rage Against the Machines"". Lanier was credited as one of the miscellaneous crew for the 2002 film ""Minority Report"". Lanier stated that his role was to help make up the gadgets and scenarios. Lanier has"
"fan of the book, he intended to remain more faithful to Dahl's vision than the 1971 film had been. Nicolas Cage was under discussions for Willy Wonka, but lost interest. Gary Ross signed to direct in February 2000, which resulted in Frank completing two drafts of the screenplay, before leaving with Ross in September 2001. Both Warner Bros. and the Dahl Estate wanted Frank to stay on the project, but he faced scheduling conflicts and contractual obligations with ""Minority Report"" (2002) and ""The Lookout"" (2007). Rob Minkoff entered negotiations to take the director's position in October 2001, and Gwyn Lurie"
"Bonnie Curtis Bonnie Kathleen Curtis (born March 26, 1966) is an American film producer whose credits include ""Saving Private Ryan"", ""A.I."", ""Minority Report"", and """", directed by Steven Spielberg. Her first solo project was the 2005 release ""The Chumscrubber"". She then joined Mockingbird Pictures with partner Julie Lynn in 2011. Curtis and Lynn produced ""Albert Nobbs"", which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Curtis is a co-recipient of the 1999 Producers Guild Award for Motion Picture Producer of the Year, for ""Saving Private Ryan"". On March 12, 2015, Curtis was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame. Spielberg congratulated"
"computer scientist Neil Gershenfeld, biomedical researcher Shaun Jones, computer scientist Jaron Lanier, and former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) architecture dean William J. Mitchell. Production designer Alex McDowell kept what was nicknamed the ""2054 bible"", an 80-page guide created in preproduction which listed all the aspects of the future world: architectural, socio-economic, political, and technological. While the discussions did not change key elements in the film, they were influential in the creation of some of the more utopian aspects, though John Underkoffler, the science and technology advisor for the film, described it as ""much grayer and more ambiguous"" than what"
"2081 (film) 2081 is a 2009 short science fiction film which premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on May 29, 2009. It is directed and written by Chandler Tuttle, based on the 1961 short story ""Harrison Bergeron"" by author Kurt Vonnegut. The cast is led by James Cosmo, Julie Hagerty, and Armie Hammer. The story paints a picture through the use of hyperbole of a future in which a powerful, dictatorial government goes to extreme measures to ensure that absolute equality exists between all individuals. The film takes place in the dystopian U.S. society of the year 2081, in"
"the sci-fi thriller ""Minority Report"" (2002), a big commercial success, was followed by the biographical portrayals of Myra Hindley in ""Longford"" (2006), Deborah Curtis in ""Control"" (2007), and Mary, Queen of Scots in """" (2007). For her role in ""Langford"", Morton earned the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. Morton made her directorial debut with the television film ""The Unloved"" (2009), winning the BAFTA Television Award for Best Single Drama. Subsequent acting credits include the films ""The Messeger"" (2009), ""John Carter"" (2012), ""Decoding Annie Parker"" (2013), and ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find"
"are reunited with Mary Ann and Robbie, who is alive after all. A closing narration explains that the aliens' immune systems could not handle the countless billions of microbes that inhabit the Earth, and that humanity has ""earned"" the right to the planet by virtue of naturally coexisting with the rest of its biosphere. After collaborating in 2002's ""Minority Report"", Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise were interested in working together again. Spielberg stated about Cruise, ""He's such an intelligent, creative partner, and brings such great ideas to the set that we just spark each other. I love working with Tom"
"Observe and Report Observe and Report is a 2009 American black comedy film written and directed by Jody Hill, starring Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, and Ray Liotta. The plot follows a mentally unstable vigilante mall cop who wants to join the police academy. The film was released on April 10, 2009 and grossed $27 million. An anonymous flasher exposes himself to shoppers in the Forest Ridge Mall parking lot. The head of mall security, Ronald ""Ronnie"" Barnhardt (Rogen), makes it his mission to apprehend the offender. However, while Ronnie is ostensibly well-intentioned and valiant in his own mind, in reality"