Amazon to adapt Phillip K. Dick's "The Man In The High Castle" as a TV series - Polidicks

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle.jpg[/img] [quote]Amazon Studios‘ third pilot cycle continues to grow, with the company quietly greenlighting two more pilots, drama The Man In the High Castle and comedy Just Add Magic. Based on Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel, The Man In the High Castle hails from The X-Files alum Frank Spotnitz and Scott Free. Written by Spotnitz and to be directed by David Semel (Legends), the project [b]set in 1962 explores an alternative reality in which Nazi Germany and Japan won World War II and occupy the United States, with the East Coast controlled by the Nazis and the West Coast owned by Japan, and a chunk of the Midwest still up for grabs. Fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names. But an aging Hitler has one foot in the grave, and the Japanese are preparing for an imminent Nazi stab in the back. The U.S. Resistance is scattered, scared, or crushed.[/b] The project originally was set up as a four-hour miniseries at Syfy last year. “The Man In High Castle is one of Dick’s most imaginative and captivating works and certainly one of my favorites,” Scott Free’s Ridley Scott said at the time. Scott, of course, directed the 1982 Blade Runner, one of several feature adaptations of Dick’s books, along with two versions of Total Recall (1990 and 2012), Minority Report (2002) and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). Spotnitz, Semel and Scott Free are repped by WME.[/quote] [Source: [url=http://www.deadline.com/2014/07/the-man-in-the-high-castle-just-add-magic-amazon-studios-pilots/]Deadline[/url]] While it's possible that you've never heard about this book, you've gotta appreciate the balls. It's a very rare thing to see adaptation of alternate history, and let's be honest - this book is one of the best.

So The New Order the Tv show.

The Man in the High Castle is one of the best reads. It's great to see Philip K. Dick getting his due credit.

[QUOTE=Propane Addict;45494938]The Man in the High Castle is one of the best reads. It's great to see Philip K. Dick getting his due credit.[/QUOTE] Fatherland is another good book in the same vein, a tasteful adaptation of it would be something to see.

This book is so mindfuckish about 75% through. Glad to see its' getting a film adaption.

it will be available everywhere* *except germany [editline]25th July 2014[/editline] what's it about PKD stuff and being adapted by Hollywood and everywhere else? his stuff just translates so well to the screen

It's an awesome book. Philip K Dick is one of my favourite authors.

It'll be interesting to see how they use the I Ching segments. You could get some great mindfuck-y scenes with it

It's one of the best books ever, but they're going to fuck it up I'm sure.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/j01ET8c.png[/IMG] I really don't know why this was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title

[IMG]http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/09/09781/09781128z.jpg[/IMG] Reading this in public on my way to work will probably turn into a shitstorm everytime

"Adapt" as in change the whole meaning of the book. Probably gonna come out as an "america fuck yeah right at the last minute" story.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;45498771][IMG]http://bilder.buecher.de/produkte/09/09781/09781128z.jpg[/IMG] Reading this in public on my way to work will probably turn into a shitstorm everytime[/QUOTE] I have that version and used to read it on the train :v:

[QUOTE=Swebonny;45499078]I have that version and used to read it on the train :v:[/QUOTE] But said train isn't travelling through Germany, is it?

I'm so hyped! Philip K. Dick was an amazing author and it is too bad he died right around the time a lot of his books began getting adapted for the screen.

Alternate history is probably one of my favorite genres, it's just so interesting

I wonder if it's going to be really black and white where the Nazi's are comically evil.

[QUOTE=spekter;45498967]"Adapt" as in change the whole meaning of the book. Probably gonna come out as an "america fuck yeah right at the last minute" story.[/QUOTE] I don't think so. If it were to air on normal television or cable channel, yeah, that could be the case. But here, the target is global, so here's hoping that there won't be that much of American circlejerking.

[QUOTE=Sableye;45494968]it will be available everywhere* *except germany [editline]25th July 2014[/editline] what's it about PKD stuff and being adapted by Hollywood and everywhere else? his stuff just translates so well to the screen[/QUOTE] TV show - means that it wouldn't have legal issues. It's usually games that have problems, because they don't fall under art representation

It shouldn't even involve the Nazis that much. In the book, a huge part of the country was taken over by Imperial Japan, and a lot of the book involves that part.