Ridley Scott to make "The Man in the High Castle"!!!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/28/philip_k_dick_novel_amazon_studios/

Son, I am excite.

Ridley Scott - BRILLIANT!!!

Wait he's making this for Amazon? Dude fuck Bezos and his slave labor warehouses. Ridley has waaaay too much on his plate now.

Amazon Studios is a thing?! Damn... Still excited, I love Ridley Scott and Philip K Dick.

maybe amazon is cool, like that minecraft dude

Weird, I actually just started reading it.

I wish Ridley Scott was still Ridley Scott... But I'm very interested in this nonetheless.

He pitched it to BBC and Syfy and they both turned him down. So Amazon stepped up.

Ok, this movie will be amazon.

Haven't heard of Philip K Dick before but that story sounds incredibly wicked.

What isn't Ridley Scott directing?

  On 7/29/2014 at 8:01 PM, Npoess said:

 

I wish Ridley Scott was still Ridley Scott...

I was going to post something along these lines, but you beat me to it. I was talking with someone about this the other day, and we came to the conclusion that the Scott of "Alien" and "Blade Runner" no longer exists (personal identity issues: the Scott that exists now fails to satisfy the relevant persistence conditions). This guy seems to have shifted his focus away from coherent, worthwhile plots, and toward crowd-pleasing special effects. This is basically the same point that Mr. Plinkett made about George Lucas here:

http://youtu.be/ORWPCCzSgu0?t=9m39s

That "Promethus" mess is subject to the same criticism.

Interesting news

haven't gotten round to Man in the high castle yet, but just the Ridley Scott + PKD combination seems amazin

Scott Free Productions being involved doesn't really mean Sir Pidley is going to be personally involved. Which is probably a good thing at this point.

Could be interesting but to be honest I'm still a little pissed off at Frank Spotnitz for killing off the Lone Gunmen.

This book was my introduction to PKD. I thought it was gonna be an easy-reading alt-history timewaster. How wrong I was...

first thought: YEEEEEEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH

second thought: oh shit, he's gonna ruin it, isn't it?

Finally a great filmmaker was asked to direct a great PKD novel. Wow. It took quite a long time!

Meanwhile, for those who haven't seen it, this might be the best PKD documentary out there.

Philip K. Dick was a special man, no doubt about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM921saJqXc

Don't really know what to think about that...The Man in the High Castle isn't my favorite novel by Dick...I find it kind of boring compared to, let's see, Ubik

  On 7/29/2014 at 8:20 PM, Herr Jan said:

Haven't heard of Philip K Dick before but that story sounds incredibly wicked.

Woah what?

He's the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was made into the Blade Runner movie. Pretty famous, at least among sci-fi fans.

  On 7/29/2014 at 10:37 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

 

  On 7/29/2014 at 8:20 PM, Herr Jan said:

Haven't heard of Philip K Dick before but that story sounds incredibly wicked.

Woah what?

He's the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was made into the Blade Runner movie. Pretty famous, at least among sci-fi fans.

 

Not to mention Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, ..

That documentary is great. It was a shame he didn't get to see his books become huge films, even if he was slightly insane.

Yeah, Dick is probably one of the few who wrote sci-fi that was semi-literature in scope. The way he wrote and convinced you of realities that might not be all that they seem was wonderful to read, even if the beginnings and endings of his stories were often total pants. Flow My Tears...has a shit ending, despite the wonderful build-up.

  On 7/29/2014 at 10:44 PM, mokz said:

 

  On 7/29/2014 at 10:37 PM, Verdant Hickies said:

 

  On 7/29/2014 at 8:20 PM, Herr Jan said:

Haven't heard of Philip K Dick before but that story sounds incredibly wicked.

Woah what?

He's the author of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was made into the Blade Runner movie. Pretty famous, at least among sci-fi fans.

 

 

Not to mention Total Recall, Minority Report, A Scanner Darkly, ..

 

I've been pretty oblivious towards a lot of fictional or sci-fi books, but this list is pretty impressive indeed. Immediately bought the book of the Man... after reading the thread, let's delve right into it!

imo ideas in pkd books are really fantastic but his characters are all alike, lifeless and 2-dimensional

  On 7/29/2014 at 7:44 PM, Squee said:

Ridley Scott - BRILLIANT!!!

Sarcasm-Level can't be handled

Yeah this is going to be horrible. Really embarrassing. I'm saying this as a big fan of pkd, said novel, blade runner, alien. Fuck this world.

It seems everybody forgot about Boring Hood, Prowroteonmetheus and that movie with all the overrated actors acting out of their range

edit: double sarcasm!

i hope Richard D James does the soundtrack, Hans Zimmer second choice.