Isa Dick Hackett, custodian of her father Philip K. Dick's estate, called the collision of Dick's work and director Michel Gondry "crazy good". Sadly, however, it's turned out too good to be true. Michel Gondry has abandoned his plans to adapt Ubik, one of Dick's best novels, for the screen."The book is brilliant," Gondry told Telerama, "but it's good as a literary work. Having tried to adapt it with several screenwriters... at the moment I don't feel up to doing it. It doesn't have the dramatic structure that would make it a good film. I received a script that disheartened me a bit, and that was it. It was a dream, but in life you can't always have what you want."It was all looking so promising. First announced three years ago, Ubik had Steve Zaillian aboard as a producer, and Hackett was keen to play up its fierce indie credibility.