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> > Ridley Scott to return to work of sci-fi icon for BBC mini-series > Blade Runner director to executive produce four-part BBC1 adaptation of > Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle > • Mark Sweney > • guardian.co.uk, Thursday 7 October 2010 16.17 BST > Ridley Scott, the Blade Runner director, is to return to the work of Philip K > Dick with The Man in the High Castle for BBC1. Photograph: Martin Argles for > the Guardian > Blade Runner director Ridley Scott is returning to the work of the late > Philip K Dick to executive produce a BBC TV adaptation of one of the American > sci-fi writer's novels. > Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer, is adapting Dick's Hugo > award-winning dystopian novel The Man in the High Castle into a four-part > BBC1 mini-series. > Set in the 1960s in an alternative scenario where the Axis forces defeated > the Allies in the second world war, the drama will be co-produced by Scott's > independent production company Scott Free Films. Scott's credits include > Blade Runner, the science fiction movie loosely based on Dick's novel Do > Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe. > The series is a co-production with Headline Pictures and Electric Shepherd, > the production arm of the Philip K Dick Estate. > "I've been a lifelong fan of Philip K Dick," said Scott. "He is the master of > creating worlds which not only spark the imagination but offer deeper > commentary on the human condition." > A number of Dick's novels and short stories have been made into films > including Total Recall and Minority Report. > The BBC is co-developing the project alongside RTL subsidiary FremantleMedia > Enterprises, which will hold the international distribution rights. > _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list Basfa@lists.basfa.org http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
