Ridley Scott Returns to PKD 99
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)."
Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... (Score:2, Interesting)
Only if you mean Stephen King when you say FKD:
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/stephenking/a/king_films.htm
Re:Hanging ending (Score:3, Interesting)
But it'll have fewer and smaller explosions, and no artificial hiding of nipples and penises.
And (and this is one of my pet peeves) US movies tend to have colour and contrast wildly exaggerated, and like with Bollywood movies, you need to have a cultural bias for suppressing disbelief. Despite less attention to details, probably due to much smaller budgets, I find British movies to be easier to identify with and "live in" while watching them.
Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong.... (Score:4, Interesting)
It may come as a surprise to you, but most people don't watch action movies for their scientific accuracy ...
It's also worth pointing out that Total Recall stops being based on the PKD story fifteen minutes into the movie or so. (The rest is still based on a mix of Dick's themes, though. I like it.)