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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.
> 

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