Syfy to Develop a 4-Hour Miniseries Adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man In The High Castle

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[Perdogg]

Syfy has finalized a deal to adapt Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award-winning novel The Man In The High Castle into a 4-hour miniseries event with Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, Hunted) attached to write and serve as Executive Producer. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions will produce the project with Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions and FremantleMedia International. Spotnitz will write the first two hours and supervise the writing of the second two hours.

[Perdogg]

ping

[mass55th]

Sounds interesting. Thanks for the heads-up!

[GeronL]

Could be really bad, but since they seem to be giving it some extra attention it should be better than most of the made-for-syfy crap.

[98ZJ USMC]

Could be really bad, but since they seem to be giving it some extra attention it should be better than most of the made-for-syfy crap.

Yeah, some of that SyFy stuff is cringe-inducing.

[Drumbo]

Syfi have ruined many classics imho including Philip José Farmer's Riverworld. Maybe they'll get one right. Ping & Book Marked

[x]

Better than Sharktopus, Dinocroc, Frankenfish, or Mansquito?

No way!

[discostu]

Could be cool. Unless they botch it.

[Lee N. Field]

Interesting. I was just thinking about the novel yesterday. I haven’t read it in maybe 30 years.

[GeronL]

probably even better than Boa vs Python

[BenLurkin]

Oh joy.

Another opportunity for Hollyweird to slip in sly innuendos equating consrvativism to Nazis.

[Sawdring]

I felt a strange Deja Vu as if something had been reprogrammed on January 20, 2009.

Did Philip K. Dick disclose the real Matrix in 1977?

[BenLurkin]

Holy smokes!

Hw has Schizophrenia.

Sad, but at least he turned it to a creative purpose.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Nah, for REAL schizophrenia, read Richard Sharpe Shaver’s “A Warning to Future Mankind”.

Shaver was in all likelihood, seriously schizophrenic, but he could write brilliantly. One of the great ones.

The Shaver Mysteries......good stuff!

[dljordan]

“Syfi have ruined many classics imho including Philip José Farmer’s Riverworld. Maybe they’ll get one right.”

You’re right, it sucked major wind but to do it right would have cost a lot.

[Noumenon]

I thought it broke major wind. Pew!

PJF must have rolled in his grave.

[Noumenon]

I'd like to see some one like HBO pick up David Wingrove's Chung Kuo. He's re-releasing it in an expanded 20(!) volume series. It's a big, complex story that today is all too believable. Check it out.

Read the original 7 volume series years ago and loved it, but it was clear that Wingrove was having difficulties with his publisher, especially in the last two volumes. Now he's re-starting it with two prequels, Son of Heaven, and Daylight on Iron Mountain. Just ordered them both.

[Sawdring]

I couldn’t find the book on Amazon and could only find folks talking about it in Amazing Stories. Do you have a like to a PDF or something?

[45semi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_of_the_South

[longtermmemmory]

they botched the spelling.

The bastardized galactica with “whatever will shock most” brainless writing and ended it with the dumbest finali in history and NOW

thie a big fan fare they announce

another low budget poopfest.

remember alice in wonderland? that was a joke.