I love me a good alternate Earth story, and Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” sounds like a doozy.
News on the Ridley Scott/Philip K. Dick front has Scott producing a 4-hour mini-series for the BBC based on “The Man in the High Castle”, with “Spooks” writer Howard Brenton set to adapt the script for television.
Based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Dick, “The Man in the High Castle” is a “What if?” story set in a 1960s United States separated into two halves by Japan and Germany, the Axis Powers having won World War II and are now engaged in a Cold War with one another. The story follows the daily life of a group of characters living in this new reality.
This won’t be the first time Scott has done a Philip K. Dick story. He directed the seminal sci-fi movie “Blade Runner” back in 1982, which was based on Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
