Paul Giamatti is in negotiations to star as SF author Philip K. Dick
in an untitled biographical movie that his newly launched production
company Touchy Feely Films is producing with Anonymous Content,
Variety reported.

The authorized biopic also is being produced by the Philip K. Dick
estate through its Electric Shepherd Productions. Tony Grisoni (Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas) will write the screenplay.

Dick, who died in 1982, penned more than four dozen books and
numerous short stories, with at least seven being adapted for the
big screen, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report
and A Scanner Darkly, which is currently in theaters.

The nontraditional biopic will interweave the prolific author's life
with his fiction and incorporate elements of his last unfinished
novel, The Owl in Daylight.

Producers are Giamatti plus Anonymous Content's Steve Golin and
Lenny Bekerman. Giamatti can now been seen in M. Night Shyamalan's
Lady in the Water, provides one of the voices in The Ant Bully and
will soon be seen in The Illusionist.