OT: The Man in the High Castle

[kato13]

I enjoyed it. I am not getting my hopes up for seeing more as it was only a pilot and 9 of 10 pilots go nowhere.

[headquarters]

It centered mostly on the re-development of American national pride with a particular emphasis on the guys making counterfeit Americana like old Colts etc for sale to wealthy Japanese officials etc.

I liked it alot. The book.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by headquarters

It centered mostly on the re-development of American national pride with a particular emphasis on the guys making counterfeit Americana like old Colts etc for sale to wealthy Japanese officials etc.

I liked it alot. The book.

It's based on a book of the same name by Philip K Dick.

[kato13]

Looks like I was wrong about the episode count. It looks like 10 eps total.

Might have gotten it confused with Jessica Jones which has 13 and drops the same day.

[pmulcahy11b]

And ...when...is...someone...going to finally make a movie/miniseries/series based on The Forever War?!

[RN7]

Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b

And ...when...is...someone...going to finally make a movie/miniseries/series based on The Forever War?!

I think Warner Bros may be planning to make the novel into a movie staring Channing Tatum.

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by RN7

I think Warner Bros may be planning to make the novel into a movie staring Channing Tatum.

When he turns 50...

[RN7]

Originally Posted by kato13

I enjoyed it. I am not getting my hopes up for seeing more as it was only a pilot and 9 of 10 pilots go nowhere.

Its got very good reviews and Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 87% approval rating so fingers crossed.

[Cdnwolf]

Sounds like something Harry Turtledove wrote.

[Raellus]

It's based on a novella by Philip K. Dick by the same title (his Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was turned into the film Blade Runner; other films based on his work: Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, and Scanners, IIRC) The novella was pretty good but not the stuff of rivetting TV. I haven't seen the show yet but it's likely that, aside from the premise, there's very little in common between story and show.

[kato13]

From what I have seen it gets more support from PKD fans than any Clancy film ever did. That give me hope that the are keeping it closer to the original than is average for Hollywood.

The people behind it have a pretty good pedigree as well

Ridley Scott is the EP
Frank Spotnitz (one of the creators of the X-files) is the main writer.
And 2 time (Heroes and House) Emmy winning director David Semel directed.

[Cdnwolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXTEuTr7sY

Episode one.... in full

[kato13]

Looks like it was picked up for a full season

http://deadline.com/2015/02/amazon-o...eo-1201375797/