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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.
In 1962 it was insightful, but now it's just a Godwin.
There's also been one incredibly crappy alternate history TV series that has soiled that sort of plot beyond recovery (the one where the USA didn't enter WWII and then found to their horror later about the genocide - that thing people were running away from before the war even started).
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!
... 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.
If this is yet another attempt to paint conservatives as evil facists, this will be total sh*t. Given that it's coming out of Hollywood, I wouldn't put it past them. Given that Scott's Robin Hood practically threw away the entire original script and subsequently turned it in to another steaming pile, I can see how this is going to end up. Come on, creatives, be original for once.
That's probably because conservatives in the US are fascists. It's beyond puerile to get upset about being called out on it. Xenophobia, check. Fear mongering, check. Corporatism, check. Ultra-nationalism, check. Obsession with stomping out socialism, that's a big check. Relying heavily upon tribalism, check. Using the aforementioned to get people to vote against their own self interest, check.
Seems to me that if conservatives are going to whine about being called fascist, that it might make sense to adopt a platform that differs in some significant and substantial way from the prototypical fascism one. But then again, if you're even making that complaint you're not going to admit that you're full of it.
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.
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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Fascist governments forbid and suppress opposition to the fascist state and the fascist movement. Exactly which side is it that is a huge proponent of the so-called Fairness Doctrine? That would be the left. Exactly which side is it that instead of debating the issues shouts racism whenever there is dissent. That would be the left.
Fascism presents itself as a solution to the perceived benefits and disadvantages of conservatism by advocating state-controlled modernization. Exactly which side is hell-bent on enacting "progressive" Cap & Trade and heavily subsidized "green" projects? That would be the left.
Fascism is heavily opposed to laissez-faire capitalism which by definition means "leave us the hell alone". Exactly which side is a huge proponent of heavy-handed government regulation? That would be the left.
There is a scholarly consensus that fascism was influenced by both the left and the right. A number of historians have regarded fascism either as a revolutionary centrist doctrine, as a doctrine which mixes philosophies of the left and the right, or as both of those things. Don't give me that crap about Fascism be exclusively the domain of the right wing.
Xenophobia? Nationalistic? What a crock. Leftist regimes have been the most xenophobic and genocidic in history.
Obsession with stomping out socialism? Fine by me. By what right should anyone have to give up what they rightfully earn so other people can slack off?
Tribalism? Oh, you mean those leftist warlords in African and other parts of the world who aren't satisfied with corrupting elections that they kill anyone who opposes them?
Quite frankly it is you, sir (spelled with a c and a u) that are full of it. Don't let factual history hit you in the butt on your way out.
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.
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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.