Ridley Scott Returns to PKD 99
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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)."
Hanging ending (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Not that I have anything against PKD, he's one of may favorite authors. But lets be honest, he stories are raided and the screen adaptations are nothing like the prose. There are many other authors out there. Hollywood is lazy, or maybe Philip's family are very well connected. Shame the author himself didn't get the money, just his leach of a family.
Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Hanging ending (Score:3, Insightful)
Or is it that UK movies have a shade too much Real Is Brown [tvtropes.org]?
Let me guess- you've only ever seen two British movies, and one of them was Guy Ritchie's "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"? And the other was its follow-up, "Snatch"- right?
They're not all like that, you know.
Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... (Score:2, Insightful)
But lets be honest, he stories are raided and the screen adaptations are nothing like the prose.
There is nothing wrong with movies based on a book that have been modified heavily. The medium is completely different. You can't convey the same ideas in a movie as you can with text.
Hollywood is lazy, or maybe Philip's family are very well connected.
It's the first. Blade Runner was a success, therefore producers are more willing to make a PKD book into a movie. Hollywood is very unwilling to try untested writers/directors/etc.