The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick’s classic novel about a world where Germany won World War II, is getting a Syfy mini-series, The New York Times reports. In a statement, Syfy said that the four-hour program would be written partly by Frank Spotnitz, a writer and eventual executive producer of The X-Files and co-producer of spinoff Millennium. Spotnitz helped create some of the most famous mythology-focused X-Files episodes, but he’s not the biggest name attached to the project: that’d be Ridley Scott, who will serve as an executive producer and will help adapt the book through his company Scott Free Productions.
Ridley Scott and ‘X-Files’ producer Frank Spotnitz adapting ‘Man in the High Castle’ for TV
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The Man in the High Castle was one of several P.K. Dick works slated for an adaptation last year, and Michael Gondry has previously been attached to a film version of Ubik. Adaptations of Dick’s highly cerebral novels and short stories have had varying success — Scott’s Blade Runner worked so well partly because of how much it diverged from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — and we’re still short on details, with no release date or casting information. Nonetheless, based on what we’ve heard so far, we’re tentatively very excited.
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