TV Series· 2015· Science Fiction

The Man in the High Castle

by Frank Spotnitz

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The Man in the High Castle

Book · 1962

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The Amazon series from Philip K. Dick's novel, developed by Frank Spotnitz. The series changes the one thing the novel is built on. In the book, the work within the work is a novel, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, describing a world where the Allies won; the series makes it newsreel FILM, which lets it show the alternative rather than have characters describe it. That is a real gain on screen and a real loss of Dick's argument, which is about how a text is read and doubted. The I Ching, Juliana, Tagomi and the Nazi-Japanese partition of America all carry over.

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The Man in the High Castle

In a dystopian America dominated by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a young woman discovers a mysterious film that may hold the key to toppling the totalitarian regimes. The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternate history television series created for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video, depicting a parallel universe in which the Axis powers of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan rule the world after their victory in World War II. It was created by Frank Spotnitz and produced by Amazon Studios, Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions, Headline Pictures, Electric Shepherd Productions, and Big Light Productions. It is based on the 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick.