Ridley Scott and Philip K. Dick, together again

From DHD – 28 years after Blade Runner, Ridley Scott is once again tackling a Philip K. Dick story. This time around Scott is producing a 4-hour miniseries based on Dick’s Hugo award winning The Man In The High Castle for the BBC. Howard Brenton (Spooks/MI-5), is writing the adaptation. Headline Pictures is producing with Electric Shepherd Productions, the production arm of Philip K Dick’s estate, and Scott’s production company Scott Free.

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.

Book Jacket:

It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war–and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award-winning novel is the work that established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to awake.