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Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon

Posted by timothy on from the changed-but-how-could-it-be-otherwise dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word of an adaption of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle. Ridley Scott is the executive producer for the adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel that's one of 13 new TV shows from Amazon Studios. There's also a video adaptation of The New Yorker magazine, and all 13 pilots are available free online. Votes of viewers will help decide which ones get picked up for a full season, and Amazon is promising customers that they've assembled "some of the greatest storytellers in the business with works of novelty and passion."

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  1. Re:Colour me apprehensive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recommend you read the original Aliens : Engineers script by Jon Spaihts.
    A lot of the foolishness from the movie actually doesn't happen here:
    - Travel based on only a picture of 5 stars: in the script they find engineer writing containing detailed stellar coordinates and directions.
    - Take helmets off: they actually keep them on for most of the time
    - Biologist playing with space cobra: in the script it's more like a worm or centipede, and they note the suits are virtually impenetrable, so they pick one up for a closer look. That should have been perfectly safe, were it not for alien acid.
    - Getting lost: both men are sent to deploy more probes, and they both assumed the other one took the mapping computer console with. There are a lot of similar corridors. Before they track their way back, they are attacked.
    - Etc

    You can thank Damon Lindelof and Ridley Scott for dumbing it all down.