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Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon
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."
Prometheus was light years better than Gladiator. I enjoyed it immensely. If there is any movie in the Alien franchise that absolutely sucked, it was Alien 3.
I am looking forward to 'Man in the High Castle'. Watching episode 1 now.
Amazon is promising customers that they've assembled "some of the greatest storytellers in the businesswith works of novelty and passion."
I'm still waiting for the Harry Bosch show starring Titus Welliver that "won" in 2013. Hello, Amazon?
Nothing better that two crewmen in a first-contact situation taking their helmets off, running off like ninnies, getting lost, and contaminating themselves. Top notch writing that.
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Even though the latter actually happened? Granted, the fights were always fixed, but still...
A lot of the Prometheus complaints seem to originate from the concept that the crew should have been a 100% perfectly professional team that knew exactly what to do in all situations. Given what Weyland was trying to accomplish, it's not surprising that some of the crew weren't up to the job.
Vickers' team was intended to die to hide what Weyland was up to, so the "exploration" specialists that weren't critical to the process were chosen to be expendable and characterized as such. They were stupid idiots because they weren't professional explorers, but lured there by money to fill an gap in the roster. If they had pulled in a completely professional team, Weyland and David wouldn't have been able to get the situation to the state they needed it.
I'm constantly amused by the number of people who get so upset when a movie portrays characters this way. It isn't a failure of the writers, it's a success in portraying an imperfect, greed-motivated person who thinks they are in the position they are in because they are the best, but actually aren't. Maybe that hits a little close to home for some.
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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.