Alanis Morissette onboard for latest Philip K. Dick film

Of course, when you make your cinematic debut as The Supreme Being, there's really nowhere left to go but down. Considering that, Alanis Morissette has done pretty well for herself as an actor since then: a little Sex in the City, some Degrassi, and a three-episode stint on Nip/Tuck last year. Now Alanis is joining the latest pilfering of late author Philip K. Dick's work: Radio Free Albemuth. She'll play Sylvia, a singing vision sprung to life as an ordinary secretary.

The book is loosely based around Dick's own well-documented visions, which troubled him throughout the '70s. Ever since his death in 1982, Dick's thought-provoking science fiction has become the basis for several Hollywood films, including Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and last year's A Scanner Darkly.

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