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Frank Spotnitz To Adapt Ridley Scott-Produced Mini ‘The Man In The High Castle’

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Monday February 11, 2013 @ 3:56am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Frank Spotnitz, Ridley Scott, Syfy, The Man In The High Castle

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 which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in the second World War. The year is 1962 and the Axis Powers occupy the U.S., where fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names. Scott’s 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner was adapted from Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

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Scott Free Speaks ‘Pigeon English’

By TIM ADLER in London | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 3:24am PSTTags: Movie Deals, Movies, Ridley Scott, Scott Free, The Drivers, The Man In The High Castle, Tony Scott

EXCLUSIVE: Ridley Scott and Tony Scott’s production company has optioned Pigeon English, a debut novel by Brit writer Stephen Kelman that Bloomsbury is due to publish on March 23rd. The BBC has commissioned the script of this television movie, one … Read More »

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Ridley Scott Returns To Philip K Dick 28 Years After Directing ‘Blade Runner’

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday October 7, 2010 @ 7:47am PDTTags: Book-to-Series, Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott, The Man In The High Castle, TV Deals, UK TV

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. Read More »

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