Alanis Morissette gets film role in Radio Free Albemuth
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 4:00 PM ET
CBC News
Canadian singer Alanis Morissette will continue her film career with a role in Radio Free Albemuth, based on a story by speculative fiction novelist Philip K. Dick.
The singer will play Sylvia, a woman who shows up as a glamorous singer in the visions of a record label executive.
Canadian singer Alanis Morissette, shown playing in Germany in 2005, has taken a film role in Radio Free Albemuth.
(Associated Press)
In reality, she's an ordinary woman who becomes his secretary and later his soulmate.
Director John Alan Simon adapted the script from Dick's 1976 novel, which was published posthumously in 1985. It was loosely based on Dick's own experience with visions in the mid-'70s, but has a subplot about resistance to an authoritarian regime.
"I am a big fan of Philip K. Dick's poetic and expansively imaginative books," Morissette was quoted as saying by the Hollywood Reporter. "I feel blessed to portray Sylvia, and to be part of this story being told in film."
Morissette previously had a film role in Dogma and has appeared on television shows such as Sex and the City, Degrassi: The Next Generation and Nip/Tuck.
Filming of Radio Free Albemuth began this month in Los Angeles.
