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Ridley Scott to Produce Philip K Dick's The Man In the High Castle

Posted by timothy on from the it's-all-in-your-head dept.

hawkinspeter (831501) writes Amazon has given the green light to produce the Hugo award-winning "The Man in the High Castle". This is after the four-hour mini-series was rejected by Syfy and afterwards by the BBC. Philip K Dick's novel takes place in an alternate universe where the Axis Powers won the Second World War. It's one of his most successful works, probably due to him actually spending the time to do some editing on it (most of his fiction was produced rapidly in order to get some money). Ridley Scott has previously adapted PKD's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" as the film Blade Runner, so it will be interesting to see how close he keeps to the source material this time. This news has been picked up by a few sites: International Business Times; The Register and Deadline.

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  1. Considering his history... by Cragen · · Score: 2, Insightful
    in Blade Runner, he essentially only kept the title character and the title and

    in Prometheus, he essentially just re-gurgitated "Alien", what could go wrong?

    1. Re:Considering his history... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Kept the title?

      The title of the book is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" and the movie title is "Bladerunner".

    2. Re:Considering his history... by uCallHimDrJ0NES · · Score: 4, Insightful

      People who reject content based off of arbitrary genre preferences are a burden to themselves and others. I don't believe that prior to Firefly, you would have said, "I'm really wanting another Western." You don't like superheroes you say, and I call bullshit. You just don't want to be lumped in with liking something that's become mainstream. Get over it.

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  2. Re:is it me or is it 30 years too late? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not everyone is 14 years old.

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  3. Syfylys passes on an actual classic by BenJeremy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is why you put an executive in charge of a channel that actually likes the genre. Bonnie Hammer only saw SciFi Channel as a stepping stone to a more mainstream network (USA), and installed another idiot who didn't really care for the shows they were peddling when she left.

    They should be funding movies based on classics, whenever possible, instead of the crappy creature-of-the-week and pseudo-reality crap they shovel out every week. These days, its possible to deliver quality science fiction programming without busting your budget, too - but somebody at the top has to be motivated to deliver this to the fans (the network's viewer base), rather than dump garbage none of the fan base wants to see in order to draw more "mainstream" viewers.