I used to think that directing was all about commanding – about knowing the answers to all the questions,” says Richard Eyre. “Now I feel the opposite.” Eyre, one of the titans of British theatre since the 1970s, has of course done his share of commanding in the past. Of Ian McKellen in one of the definitive stagings of Richard III. Of Daniel Day-Lewis in Hamlet, which saw the actor walk off stage mid-performance and never return. Of the National Theatre, throughout his 10-year stint as creative director between 1987 and 1997, when he championed the work of firebrand artists such as David Hare and Howard Brenton.
On screen, he cut his teeth on Play for Today before moving on to films such as 2006’s Notes from a Scandal and the BBC’s 2018 King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and a cusp-of-stardom Florence Pugh. Now 79 years old, Eyre speaks to me over video chat...
On screen, he cut his teeth on Play for Today before moving on to films such as 2006’s Notes from a Scandal and the BBC’s 2018 King Lear starring Anthony Hopkins and a cusp-of-stardom Florence Pugh. Now 79 years old, Eyre speaks to me over video chat...
- 3/16/2023
- by Louis Chilton
- The Independent - Film
Exclusive: Dromgoole to direct Ché Walker script Dead Head.
Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.
According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.
Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.
The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.
The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).
Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...
Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.
According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.
Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.
The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.
The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).
Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...
- 4/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
If picked up, Amazon Pilot The Man In The High Castle could become as compulsive to watch as The Americans meets Lost...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 The Man In The High Castle (Pilot)
Adapting the worlds of Philip K. Dick to visual media is always a tricky proposition. For whatever reason, the person who has done Dick's work the most justice is Ridley Scott in his production of Blade Runner. Even that was different from the source material, but it works brilliantly as a film thanks to Scott's pruning and shaping, and that's one of the reasons why Amazon Studios' adaptation of The Man In The High Castle has been greeted with such interest from fans of all things weird. After all, when you have Ridley Scott and The X-Files guru Frank Spotnitz attached to the same project, it seems like only good things can result.
The Man In The High Castle...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 The Man In The High Castle (Pilot)
Adapting the worlds of Philip K. Dick to visual media is always a tricky proposition. For whatever reason, the person who has done Dick's work the most justice is Ridley Scott in his production of Blade Runner. Even that was different from the source material, but it works brilliantly as a film thanks to Scott's pruning and shaping, and that's one of the reasons why Amazon Studios' adaptation of The Man In The High Castle has been greeted with such interest from fans of all things weird. After all, when you have Ridley Scott and The X-Files guru Frank Spotnitz attached to the same project, it seems like only good things can result.
The Man In The High Castle...
- 1/19/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Filth, Pride and Philomena among film nominees; awards take place on Jan 19 in London.
Sandi Toksvig will present the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain annual Awards at Riba, in London, on Jan 19, 2015.
In the two film categories, Pride (Stephen Beresford), The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) and Starred Up (Jonathan Asser) are up for Best First Screenplay, while Filth (Jon S Baird), Metro Manila (Sean Ellis & Frank E Flowers) and Philomena (Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan) will compete for Best Screenplay.
TV programmes up for awards include Line of Duty (Jed Mercurio), Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight), The Great Train Robbery (Chris Chibnall) and House of Fools (Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer).
A special award for outstanding contribution to writing and writers will be presented on the night.
Full shortlist
TV Drama – Long Form
Line of Duty (Jed Mercurio), Happy Valley (Sally Wainwright), Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight)
TV Drama – Short Form
The Great Train Robbery (Chris Chibnall), Turks & Caicos (David Hare), [link...
Sandi Toksvig will present the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain annual Awards at Riba, in London, on Jan 19, 2015.
In the two film categories, Pride (Stephen Beresford), The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) and Starred Up (Jonathan Asser) are up for Best First Screenplay, while Filth (Jon S Baird), Metro Manila (Sean Ellis & Frank E Flowers) and Philomena (Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan) will compete for Best Screenplay.
TV programmes up for awards include Line of Duty (Jed Mercurio), Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight), The Great Train Robbery (Chris Chibnall) and House of Fools (Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer).
A special award for outstanding contribution to writing and writers will be presented on the night.
Full shortlist
TV Drama – Long Form
Line of Duty (Jed Mercurio), Happy Valley (Sally Wainwright), Peaky Blinders (Steven Knight)
TV Drama – Short Form
The Great Train Robbery (Chris Chibnall), Turks & Caicos (David Hare), [link...
- 12/5/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
We got a brilliant, kaleidoscopic entertainment that evoked the National's past and opened up possibilities for the future
I count myself fortunate to have been part of the audience at Saturday night's celebration of the National theatre's 50th birthday. I don't know how it looked to viewers on BBC 2 or in cinemas at home and abroad. But, sitting in the Olivier, what we got was a brilliant kaleidoscopic entertainment that not only evoked the National's past but also, through astute recasting, opened up possibilities for the future.
Obviously it was moving to see legendary actors, either through archival footage or live performance, repeating past successes. There was a white-haired Joan Plowright, filmed at the Old Vic only last month, sternly replying to her accusers as Shaw's Saint Joan. There, too, was Maggie Smith – seen one moment on film rolling a wine glass across her forehead as the affectedly sexy Myra in Coward's Hay Fever,...
I count myself fortunate to have been part of the audience at Saturday night's celebration of the National theatre's 50th birthday. I don't know how it looked to viewers on BBC 2 or in cinemas at home and abroad. But, sitting in the Olivier, what we got was a brilliant kaleidoscopic entertainment that not only evoked the National's past but also, through astute recasting, opened up possibilities for the future.
Obviously it was moving to see legendary actors, either through archival footage or live performance, repeating past successes. There was a white-haired Joan Plowright, filmed at the Old Vic only last month, sternly replying to her accusers as Shaw's Saint Joan. There, too, was Maggie Smith – seen one moment on film rolling a wine glass across her forehead as the affectedly sexy Myra in Coward's Hay Fever,...
- 11/4/2013
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Playwright whose anarchic works were filled with vividly imagined characters
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
Snoo Wilson, who has died suddenly aged 64, was in the vanguard of the young playwrights revolutionising British theatre in the two decades after 1968, but Snoo was a very different kettle of fish from the others. While David Edgar, Howard Brenton and David Hare were often overtly political, Snoo was a Marxist "tendance Groucho"; more subtly subversive and humorous. Sometimes the surface frivolity of his work made people think he wasn't serious, but he was always trying to mine under the surface of things, to allow the subconscious to drive his imagination. Snoo used fiercely imagined characters in comic and often savage works that nevertheless, in the best plays, demonstrated an insouciant knowledge of dramatic structure. He was not a believer in naturalism.
Throughout his career Snoo refused to accept that mere reality was all there was – if so, it was...
- 7/5/2013
- by Dusty Hughes
- The Guardian - Film News
Gielgud, London
Peter Morgan struck box-office gold with his movie The Queen. He's likely to do so again with this play based on the private weekly audience given by the monarch to the prime minister. But I'd say that in both cases, Pm owes a great deal to Hm: in other words, Helen Mirren, who once again gives a faultless performance that transcends mere impersonation to endow the monarch with a sense of inner life and a quasi-Shakespearean aura of solitude.
As a dramatist, however, Morgan faces two problems. One is that no one ever knows what is said at these weekly tête-à-têtes since they are un-minuted. The other, more serious, is that in a constitutional monarchy, the Queen has no authority to contradict policy: simply, in the words of Walter Bagehot in the 19th century, "to be consulted, to advise and to warn", which would seem to rule out dramatic conflict.
Peter Morgan struck box-office gold with his movie The Queen. He's likely to do so again with this play based on the private weekly audience given by the monarch to the prime minister. But I'd say that in both cases, Pm owes a great deal to Hm: in other words, Helen Mirren, who once again gives a faultless performance that transcends mere impersonation to endow the monarch with a sense of inner life and a quasi-Shakespearean aura of solitude.
As a dramatist, however, Morgan faces two problems. One is that no one ever knows what is said at these weekly tête-à-têtes since they are un-minuted. The other, more serious, is that in a constitutional monarchy, the Queen has no authority to contradict policy: simply, in the words of Walter Bagehot in the 19th century, "to be consulted, to advise and to warn", which would seem to rule out dramatic conflict.
- 3/6/2013
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
Stage actors – with minimal scope for makeup or prosthetics between scenes – tend to find it easier to age down than up
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
There are various ways of measuring a play: the number of characters or scenes, the presence or absence of an interval, and the average length of speeches. But Di and Viv and Rose – the Amelia Bullmore tragi-comedy currently having a second, sold-out run at the Hampstead theatre in London – suggests a new statistic: story years.
In 120 minutes of action, Bullmore follows three college friends across almost three decades (1983-2010), which places the play just ahead of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along (which covers 23 years, 1957-80, in the Maria Friedman production that is deservedly about to transfer from the Menier Chocolate Factory to London's West End). These shows travel through history so rapidly that the Simon Stephens play Port, which recently opened at the National, feels almost laggardly...
- 2/21/2013
- by Mark Lawson
- The Guardian - Film News
The miniseries adaptation of The Man In The High Castle was originally announced as a project back in 2010. At the time, the four-parter based on Philip K Dick‘s novel, was to be a Headline Pictures/Electric Shepherd/Scott Free production for the BBC, scripted by British playwright Howard Brenton and sold internationally by FremantleMedia. Some of the puzzle pieces have since shifted. Syfy said today it has sealed a deal to adapt the Hugo Award-winning tome with Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files, Hunted) attached to write and exec produce. Ridley Scott’s Scott Free will produce with Headline, Electric Shepherd Productions (the production arm of Dick’s estate) and FremantleMedia International. Producers are Ridley Scott and Stewart Mackinnon. Spotnitz will write the first two hours and supervise the writing of the second two hours, Syfy said today. Dick’s novel is an alternate history story set in a world in...
- 2/11/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov's poetic maelstrom is transferred from page to stage by Simon McBurney and Complicite. The devil is abroad in a godless Ussr. Barbican, London EC2 (0845 120 7550), to 7 April.
Anne Boleyn
The Globe goes out on tour with Howard Brenton's delightful and intelligent look at English Protestantism and the woman who furthered its cause. New Alexandra, Birmingham (0844 871 3011), 20-24 March, then touring.
Filumena
Samantha Spiro stars as the canny Neapolitan woman who has been a mistress for 25 years but is determined to be a wife. Michael Attenborough directs this new version of Eduardo de Filippo's lively comedy. Almeida, London N1 (012 7359 4404), to 12 May.
Film
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan...
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this weekTheatre
The Master and Margarita
Bulgakov's poetic maelstrom is transferred from page to stage by Simon McBurney and Complicite. The devil is abroad in a godless Ussr. Barbican, London EC2 (0845 120 7550), to 7 April.
Anne Boleyn
The Globe goes out on tour with Howard Brenton's delightful and intelligent look at English Protestantism and the woman who furthered its cause. New Alexandra, Birmingham (0844 871 3011), 20-24 March, then touring.
Filumena
Samantha Spiro stars as the canny Neapolitan woman who has been a mistress for 25 years but is determined to be a wife. Michael Attenborough directs this new version of Eduardo de Filippo's lively comedy. Almeida, London N1 (012 7359 4404), to 12 May.
Film
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan...
- 3/18/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Kim Cattrall has been nominated for a coveted theater award. The "Sex and the City" star's turn as Amanda in "Private Lives" sees her considered for the Best Actress in a Play prize at the 11th Whatsonstage.com Awards.
She will face competition from "End of the Rainbow" star Tracie Bennett, Helen McCrory for her role in "The Late Middle Classes", "Ruined" star Jenny Jules, Nancy Carroll from "After the Dance" and "All My Sons" actress Zoe Wanamaker.
The Best Actor in a Play award will be contested by Benedict Cumberbatch from "After the Dance", Kim's "Private Lives" co-star Matthew Mcfadyen, "Hamlet" and "Measure For Measure" star Rory Kinnear, "Deathtrap" and "London Assurance" actor Simon Russell Beale, "The Real Thing"'s Toby Stephens and "All My Sons" star David Suchet.
"All My Sons" received more nominations than any other production, being considered for accolades in six different categories. The most...
She will face competition from "End of the Rainbow" star Tracie Bennett, Helen McCrory for her role in "The Late Middle Classes", "Ruined" star Jenny Jules, Nancy Carroll from "After the Dance" and "All My Sons" actress Zoe Wanamaker.
The Best Actor in a Play award will be contested by Benedict Cumberbatch from "After the Dance", Kim's "Private Lives" co-star Matthew Mcfadyen, "Hamlet" and "Measure For Measure" star Rory Kinnear, "Deathtrap" and "London Assurance" actor Simon Russell Beale, "The Real Thing"'s Toby Stephens and "All My Sons" star David Suchet.
"All My Sons" received more nominations than any other production, being considered for accolades in six different categories. The most...
- 12/4/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Ridley Scott, who should be focusing all of his attention on the Alien prequels, is instead goofing around with more projects. But he's not directing, he's producing. Deadline has more:He’s producing a new 4-hour miniseries based on Dick’s The Man In The High Castle for the BBC. Howard Brenton, the British playwright who’s also written for Spooks/Mi-5, is adapting the Hugo Award-winning novel. Headline Pictures is also producing with Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of Philip K Dick’s estate, and Scott’s production company Scott Free. Fremantle Media, which handles The X Factor, will sell the 4 hour-long episodes overseas. Dick’s novel is a science fiction alternate history, depicting a world in which the Axis powers -- Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany -- triumphed over the Allies in the Second World War. Fremantle is developing the TV miniseries for BBC1.Click Here to read the rest.
- 10/8/2010
- LRMonline.com
Fun fact: Philip K. Dick did not live to see a single one of his stories on the silver screen. He died of a stroke barely two months before the release of Blade Runner in 1982. A total of nine movies have been adapted from his body of work, and now, 28 years later, Ridley Scott is returning to make it an even ten. The Guardian reports that the director of Blade Runner and Gladiator will be the executive producer of a BBC television adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, an alternate-history novel about the Axis powers winning WWII. (Ok, so it's not technically number ten because this is being produced for TV, not theaters, but fuck you.)
Howard Brenton, who writes the incredible Spooks, is adapting the novel.
And because there is not nearly enough science fiction in this post, here's Philip K Dick introducing you all to the concept of the Uncanny Valley.
Howard Brenton, who writes the incredible Spooks, is adapting the novel.
And because there is not nearly enough science fiction in this post, here's Philip K Dick introducing you all to the concept of the Uncanny Valley.
- 10/8/2010
- by Willis Reynolds
Ridley Scott is going back to Philip K. Dick, the man who gave him one of his greatest movies, Blade Runner. What would the world look like if we'd lost World War II? Scott's Man in the High Castle miniseries will show us.
According to the Guardian, Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer, is presently adapting the book. Its a pretty complicated story with handful of story lines that follow a variety of characters, so it's perfect miniseries fodder. It should be interesting to see if Scott keeps his miniseries set in the same time period as the book, the 1960s — we feel like he may be tempted to update it to the here and now. But either way, we're really excited to watch the world-building begin on this feature.
According to the Guardian, Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer, is presently adapting the book. Its a pretty complicated story with handful of story lines that follow a variety of characters, so it's perfect miniseries fodder. It should be interesting to see if Scott keeps his miniseries set in the same time period as the book, the 1960s — we feel like he may be tempted to update it to the here and now. But either way, we're really excited to watch the world-building begin on this feature.
- 10/8/2010
- QuietEarth.us
In 1982 Ridley Scott gave us Blade Runner, based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? While Blade Runner was a bomb on its release, and didn't attract much critical reception, the years have been kind to Scott's vision of a run-down future that's supposed to happen just seven years from now.
And here we are in the future, so instead of mining more of Dick's looks forward, Scott is going to the past. The Man in the High Castle is an alternative history novel of the author's, set in the years following the end of World War II -- but in this world, the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese won the war. Published in 1962, The Man in the High Castle has several intertwining storylines including one about an author who wrote an alternate history novel in this universe, one that postulates the Allies winning WW2 and what happened afterward (no,...
And here we are in the future, so instead of mining more of Dick's looks forward, Scott is going to the past. The Man in the High Castle is an alternative history novel of the author's, set in the years following the end of World War II -- but in this world, the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese won the war. Published in 1962, The Man in the High Castle has several intertwining storylines including one about an author who wrote an alternate history novel in this universe, one that postulates the Allies winning WW2 and what happened afterward (no,...
- 10/8/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions will produce a 4-hour TV adaptation of author Phlip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle", based on a script by Howard Brenton.
The original 1962 novel was a science fiction 'alternate history', that won a sci fi 'Hugo' book award in 1963.
Premise of the book, about daily life under totalitarian Fascist imperialism, occurs in 1962, fourteen years after the end of the Second World War in 1948. The victorious Axis Powers, Japan and Germany, conduct intrigues against each other in North America, specifically in the former Us, which surrendered to them, after the Axis conquered Eurasia and destroyed the populaces of Africa.
"...the successful assassination by 'Giuseppe Zangara' of Us President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933, led to the weak governments of Fdr's Vice President 'John Nance Garner' and Republican 'John W. Bricker' in 1940.
"Both politicians failed to surmount the Great Depression and maintained the country's...
The original 1962 novel was a science fiction 'alternate history', that won a sci fi 'Hugo' book award in 1963.
Premise of the book, about daily life under totalitarian Fascist imperialism, occurs in 1962, fourteen years after the end of the Second World War in 1948. The victorious Axis Powers, Japan and Germany, conduct intrigues against each other in North America, specifically in the former Us, which surrendered to them, after the Axis conquered Eurasia and destroyed the populaces of Africa.
"...the successful assassination by 'Giuseppe Zangara' of Us President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1933, led to the weak governments of Fdr's Vice President 'John Nance Garner' and Republican 'John W. Bricker' in 1940.
"Both politicians failed to surmount the Great Depression and maintained the country's...
- 10/8/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
I love me a good alternate Earth story, and Philip K. Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle” sounds like a doozy. News on the Ridley Scott/Philip K. Dick front has Scott producing a 4-hour mini-series for the BBC based on “The Man in the High Castle”, with “Spooks” writer Howard Brenton set to adapt the script for television. Based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Dick, “The Man in the High Castle” is a “What if?” story set in a 1960s United States separated into two halves by Japan and Germany, the Axis Powers having won World War II and are now engaged in a Cold War with one another. The story follows the daily life of a group of characters living in this new reality. This won’t be the first time Scott has done a Philip K. Dick story. He directed the seminal...
- 10/8/2010
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
28 years after he turned Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” into the sci-fi classic “Blade Runner”, Ridley Scott adapting Dick’s 1962 book “The Man in the High Castle” into a miniseries. Scott’s Scott Free production company, along with Electric Shepherd Production, the production wing of Dick’s estate, will produce four hour-long episodes for the BBC. Dick’s novel is a science fiction alternate history, depicting a world in which the Axis powers—Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—triumphed over the Allies in the Second World War. British playwright Howard Brenton is adapting the Hugo Award-winning novel. Brenton has also written for “Mi-5” and “Spooks”. Dick is all over the place in Hollywood right now. “The Man in the High Castle” joins fellow upcoming adaptations like Sony’s remake of “Total Recal”, and Disney’s “King of the Elves”. “The Adjustment Bureau”, which stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt,...
- 10/8/2010
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Ridley Scott is set to produce a four-hour mini-series for the BBC based on Philip K. Dick's Hugo Award-winning novel "The Man in the High Castle" reports the trades.
Howard Brenton (TV's "Spooks") will adapt the script of the story which is set in an alternate world where Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan defeated the Allied forces in World War II. The pair are now engaged in a Cold War, playing out in the former United States which each power now owns and governs half of.
The production schedule is presently unknown. Scott turned Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep" into his 1982 cinematic classic "Blade Runner".
Howard Brenton (TV's "Spooks") will adapt the script of the story which is set in an alternate world where Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan defeated the Allied forces in World War II. The pair are now engaged in a Cold War, playing out in the former United States which each power now owns and governs half of.
The production schedule is presently unknown. Scott turned Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep" into his 1982 cinematic classic "Blade Runner".
- 10/8/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
He’s a tasty morsel of news for both fans of Ridley Scott (particularly his earlier work) and famed sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick.
Deadline are reporting that Scott is producing a new BBC miniseries based on Dick’s The Man In The High Castle, which is being adapted by the British playwright Howard Brenton (who’s had experience on the small screen, having previously written a number of episodes for Spooks).
The book presents an alternative historical timeline where Japan and Nazi Germany have taken over the word, having defeated the Allies in the Second World War.
The last time Scott worked on a Dick adaptation was way back in 1982 for Blade Runner – arguably his greatest piece of work. This has also come at a time where there is a resurgence in interest of the novelist’s work, with whispers of Ubik been turned into a feature, and both...
Deadline are reporting that Scott is producing a new BBC miniseries based on Dick’s The Man In The High Castle, which is being adapted by the British playwright Howard Brenton (who’s had experience on the small screen, having previously written a number of episodes for Spooks).
The book presents an alternative historical timeline where Japan and Nazi Germany have taken over the word, having defeated the Allies in the Second World War.
The last time Scott worked on a Dick adaptation was way back in 1982 for Blade Runner – arguably his greatest piece of work. This has also come at a time where there is a resurgence in interest of the novelist’s work, with whispers of Ubik been turned into a feature, and both...
- 10/8/2010
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ridley Scott will be adapting yet another Philip K. Dick novel called The Man in the High Castle. A science fiction story that is placed in an alternate history, depicting a world in which the Axis powers, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, triumphed over the Allies in the Second World War, due to a 1933 assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The story will be adapted into a 4-hour miniseries that Scott will produce. Howard Brenton, the British playwright who’s also written for Spooks/Mi-5, is adapting the 1963 Hugo Award-winning novel.
In 1982 Scott adapted Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the classic sci-fi film that we all came to know and love... Blade Runner.
I'll be looking forward to this! This story will make for a great series! I hope they put some solid production value into it. What do you all think?...
The story will be adapted into a 4-hour miniseries that Scott will produce. Howard Brenton, the British playwright who’s also written for Spooks/Mi-5, is adapting the 1963 Hugo Award-winning novel.
In 1982 Scott adapted Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the classic sci-fi film that we all came to know and love... Blade Runner.
I'll be looking forward to this! This story will make for a great series! I hope they put some solid production value into it. What do you all think?...
- 10/7/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
There have been a great many terrible and/or forgettable film adaptations of stories by speculative fiction master Philip K. Dick. One of the few Pkd films that became a legend in its own right -- even if it isn't a very faithful adaptation, or perhaps because of that fact -- is Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. So the news that Mr. Scott is producing a 4-hour BBC miniseries based on Philip K. Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle is one of the few occasions where the possibility of seeing another of Mr. Dick's books onscreen seems more promising than not. Deadline says that Mr. Scott will produce, with playwright and Spooks and Mi-5 writer Howard Brenton adapting. That's a good choice to write, I think, given that The Man in the High Castle is essentially an alternate-reality cold war tale. To recap the basics of the novel,...
- 10/7/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Blade Runner director to executive produce four-part BBC1 adaptation of Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle
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.
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.
- 10/7/2010
- by Mark Sweney
- The Guardian - Film News
He’s producing a new 4-hour miniseries based on Dick’s The Man In The High Castle for the BBC. Howard Brenton, the British playwright who’s also written for Spooks/Mi-5, is adapting the Hugo Award-winning novel. Headline Pictures is also producing with Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of Philip K Dick’s estate, and Scott’s production company Scott Free. Fremantle Media, which handles The X Factor, will sell the 4 hour-long episodes overseas. Dick’s novel is a science fiction alternate history, depicting a world in which the Axis powers -- Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany -- triumphed over the Allies in the Second World War. Fremantle is developing the TV miniseries for BBC1. Dick, who wrote 40 novels and 125 short stories during his brief 54-year life, has become one of the most popular authors for Hollywood to mine today. Sony Pictures is developing a remake of Total Recall,...
- 10/7/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
Ridley Scott, who famously adapted Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into 1982's Blade Runner , is set to produce a four-hour television adaptation of another Dick novel, The Man in the High Castle , according to a report at Deadline . The original novel, published in 1962, is set in an alternate history where the Axis powers won the Second World War due to a 1933 assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt (based on the historical attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who wound up murdering Chicago's then-Mayor Anton Cermak instead). The book was awarded the 1963 Hugo award. Howard Brenton (the British television series "Mi-5" and "Spooks") will adapt the text for Scott Free Productions.
- 10/7/2010
- Comingsoon.net
HollywoodNews.com: The 14th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, are pleased to announce that producers Danny Boyle and Christian Colson will be honored with the “Hollywood Producer Award,” screenwriter Aaron Sorkin will get the “Hollywood Screenwriter Award,” and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall will be honored with the “Hollywood Editor Award” at the festival’s Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony.
The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder of the Hollywood Awards Gala.
“We are honored to recognize these exceptionally talented artists for their outstanding work and creative vision at this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala,” said de Abreu.
Previously announced honorees for this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala include: Sean Penn for the “Humanitarian Award”; Helena Bonham Carter for the “Supporting Actress Award”; Sam Rockwell for the “Supporting Actor Award”; Andrew Garfield for the “Breakthrough Actor Award”; Mia Wasikowska for the “Breakthrough Actress...
The announcement was made today by Carlos de Abreu, Founder of the Hollywood Awards Gala.
“We are honored to recognize these exceptionally talented artists for their outstanding work and creative vision at this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala,” said de Abreu.
Previously announced honorees for this year’s Hollywood Awards Gala include: Sean Penn for the “Humanitarian Award”; Helena Bonham Carter for the “Supporting Actress Award”; Sam Rockwell for the “Supporting Actor Award”; Andrew Garfield for the “Breakthrough Actor Award”; Mia Wasikowska for the “Breakthrough Actress...
- 9/27/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
Both men have a history of radical work in theatre, and also understand that spectacle is nothing without a human touch – exactly the qualities the Olympics will need
I can't help feeling a delighted astonishment at the news that Stephen Daldry and Danny Boyle are to be in charge of the Olympics spectacle: the former as creative producer, the latter as director of the opening ceremony. Both started out as mavericks working on minute budgets. Now they'll have big bucks to spend on ceremonies that will help to define the success, or otherwise, of the London Olympics. Yet they seem to me exactly the right men for the job.
I first met Daldry 20 years ago when he was a gangling guy in sneakers who looked as if he needed a good meal. Yet, even as a fringe theatre director with no money to play with, he thought on a big...
I can't help feeling a delighted astonishment at the news that Stephen Daldry and Danny Boyle are to be in charge of the Olympics spectacle: the former as creative producer, the latter as director of the opening ceremony. Both started out as mavericks working on minute budgets. Now they'll have big bucks to spend on ceremonies that will help to define the success, or otherwise, of the London Olympics. Yet they seem to me exactly the right men for the job.
I first met Daldry 20 years ago when he was a gangling guy in sneakers who looked as if he needed a good meal. Yet, even as a fringe theatre director with no money to play with, he thought on a big...
- 6/17/2010
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
If you were guessing the locale of a leading regional American theater known for championing new, experimental work, you might first suggest San Francisco, Minneapolis, or Seattle. If someone prompted, "Think Texas," your mind would likely leap to Austin. Unless you were in the know about such things, you wouldn't name the Undermain Theatre, in Dallas."The Undermain is an unsung American treasure, and more people should know about it," says Len Jenkin, the Obie Award–winning, New York–based playwright whose "Port Twilight, or A History of Science" is currently enjoying its world premiere on the Undermain stage. "The Undermain is able to do a really extraordinary thing," Jenkin notes, "in that in a much more conservative town than some others in the United States, they're able to do the most adventurous kind of theater work, to do it really well, to do it imaginatively, and to keep doing it.
- 12/9/2009
- backstage.com
'What really buys you freedom is being successful. So long as you deliver, they leave you alone'
For someone best known for Shooting the Past, a television drama apparently so slow and un-televisual that BBC executives begged him to speed it up, Stephen Poliakoff is a very fast talker. Sentences tumble into one another, thoughts jerkily digress, regroup and change their angle of attack. Ideas flit in and out of focus as all the while a plastic drinking straw is furiously twiddled between his fingers. Outlining details of his latest venture, Glorious 39, his first feature film for 12 years, Poliakoff makes glancing references to George W Bush, Bulldog Drummond, the history of the wire tap and Norfolk's evergreen oaks in expressing his fascination and horror at the aristocratic and establishment appeasers who, in the run-up to the second world war, mounted a desperate last effort to do a deal with...
For someone best known for Shooting the Past, a television drama apparently so slow and un-televisual that BBC executives begged him to speed it up, Stephen Poliakoff is a very fast talker. Sentences tumble into one another, thoughts jerkily digress, regroup and change their angle of attack. Ideas flit in and out of focus as all the while a plastic drinking straw is furiously twiddled between his fingers. Outlining details of his latest venture, Glorious 39, his first feature film for 12 years, Poliakoff makes glancing references to George W Bush, Bulldog Drummond, the history of the wire tap and Norfolk's evergreen oaks in expressing his fascination and horror at the aristocratic and establishment appeasers who, in the run-up to the second world war, mounted a desperate last effort to do a deal with...
- 11/28/2009
- The Guardian - Film News
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