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Ridley Scott Returns to PKD
Krau Ming quotes from a report at Sneakpeek.ca "Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions will produce a 4-hour TV adaptation of author Phlip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, based on a script by Howard Brenton. The original 1962 novel was a science fiction 'alternate history' that won a sci fi Hugo book award in 1963. Premise of the book, about daily life under totalitarian Fascist imperialism, occurs in 1962, fourteen years after the end of the Second World War in 1948. The victorious Axis Powers, Japan and Germany, conduct intrigues against each other in North America, specifically in the former US, which surrendered to them, after the Axis conquered Eurasia and destroyed the populaces of Africa." Adds Krau Ming: "Hopefully this will fall in the category of well-done PKD adaptations (though I'll leave it up to the slashdotters to determine which of the previous movies should be categorized as such)."
but isn't PKD the author who has the most works that have been translated to the silver screen? I love hisa work and I'm glad to know that yet another of his novels/short stories/novellas is being translated.
Showbiz types generally hate hanging endings. I'll guess fans will be disappointed with it being "reimagined".
That was such a steaming pile of dumb, I will simply assume a Scott Free production is shit until proven otherwise.
...for a moment i almost forgot that Scott has made nothing but crap since Thelma & Louise.
Why does there seem to be typos in at least half of all posts on the main page? "Phlip K Dick"? It's like the site is run by 8th graders. Yeah it's off topic. Get over it.
The movie is in my opinion the best adaptation of a PKD novel. Watch it!
Huh? Care to elaborate? And did you really read it in -62? That would make you ... pretty old by Slashdot standards.
... that WW II ended in 1948.
I just hope he does better than the recent Robin Hood film of his, that one kinda missed the spot, so to speak. I didn't find myself rooting for any of the characters, good or bad they were both bland and unengaging.
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
A dick directs Dick. (at least according to his reputation in the film industry)
I'm guessing that it'll be 2 x 2hr episodes which in some respect is better than making an actual film as it means the directors/script writers will have more time in order to portray the story. One of the problems in transferring any book to film format is that most audiences have a finite attention span in a cinema setting so its hard for script writers to convey the full story with all the nuances of a book :/
Fingers crossed they get it right.
Why do you think there's a /. "standard" for age?
I believe you'll find plenty of people here in their 60s or older.
The people who started the Internet revolution are now between 40 and 70, and Slashdot has become one of the home bases. Yes, Slashdot probably has a much larger proportion of geezers than many other tech fora. Deal.
Oh, I think U.S. conservatives have proven that they're fully capable of painting themselves brown, with no help needed. Once the Tea Party starts wearing uniforms, it's time to run away, quickly.
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but isn't PKD the author who has the most works that have been translated to the silver screen?
"The Prince and the Pauper" was filmed by the Edison studios in 1909 - at Mark Twain's home in Conneticut!
There have been at least 120 credited and uncredited adaptations of Twain's stories.
292 tales from Dickens.
232 adaptations of Sherlock Holmes.
223 productions based on the novels and stories of Robert Lewis Stevenson.
201 adaptations from O.Henry, 137 from Jules Verne.
83 from H.G. Wells, 77 from Rudyard Kipling.
As improbable as it sounds, there is new version of The Three Musketeers in production. The first was in 1898.
Radio Free Albemuth is due for release before the end of the year.
> The original 1962 novel was a science fiction 'alternate history'
No it wasn't, not unless it recounted two different histories and oscillated between them on a periodic basis.
Alternate is not a synonym for alternative.
Is this going to be 4 hours of actual story, or is it going to be 4 hours in the way that I've heard people talking about making an 'hour' of TV (the official LOST podcast comes to mind) when what they're actually making is ~40 minutes of TV which the broadcaster will then show in an hour long timeslot along with ~20 minutes of adverts?
He's got 2 out of 10 right.
I mean Paycheck is great, but Blade Runner is trash? I mean Paycheck, great? Really? Was there another version i missed that was good, and if so where can i see it?
Movie critics are about as useful and accurate as futurists.
As a long-time fan of Philip K. Dick, I've always been disappointed that the movies made from his stories have deviated so far from the stories themselves. Don't get me wrong - I loved Blade Runner and quite liked Total Recall - but I was always dissatisfied that they weren't true to Dick's original vision. 'The Man in the High Castle' is arguably Dick's best and most accessible work, and I've always thought it would make a fantastic movie. Here's hoping that Scott has the good sense to simply translate the novel to film, rather than playing at being an SF writer and trying to one-up Dick's own mastery of the genre.
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I have no faith in this being any good. Ridley Scott used to make good movies. Blade Runner and Alien are examples. Since the end of the 80's though he has mostly gone to pot, producing awful movie after awful movie.
Mod parent up... except 'The Man in the High Castle' wasnt his best work. Other of his books are better in many senses. Just remember, too much PKD before sleeping can provoke paranoia, time flow alterations and alternate reality experiences... or experience the true reality.
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I think Blade Runner was brilliant even though it wasn't true to the book. In fact, I dare say I found the script even more compelling than the original PKD story. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? is great and a true adaptation might have been excellent but what Ridley Scott managed to do with Blade Runner is nothing short of marvelous. It's extremely rare for a "re-imagined" story to be that good because the movie will be competing with your own imagination while at the same time limited by what you can achieve (visually) through movie making.
I'm not ashamed to say Ridley Scott's vision kicked my ass.
And did you really read it in -62? That would make you ... pretty old by Slashdot standards.
Being old enough to have actually read a paper based book, not just seen them cited in Wikipedia, makes you old Slashdot standards.
Nowadays you are expected to have downloaded the ebook, reading it would take too long; preferably without having paid for it.