Film, TV or Theatrical Adaptations
Although there have been occasional reports over the years of filmmakers wanting to adapt Burroughs' story for the screen, to date no one has seriously taken on the project. For a brief period, Dennis Hopper owned the rights to the film, but nothing ever came to fruition. The closest it has ever come to being filmed is a 2002 Dutch short combining live action and rotoscope animated scenes. The short only features portions of Burroughs' script, with some segments varying slightly from the source material. The film features Rutger Hauer as the voice of Schultz.
A similar novel-cum-screenplay is 1992's Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: An Illustrated Screenplay by Robert Anton Wilson.
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