All of the trailers were released during San Diego Comic-Con! Amazon Prime joined in by sharing a first look at their adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick’s alternate-history novel in which the Nazis won World War II. They’ve split not only the United States, but most of the world, with Japan, and freedom and liberty are the kinds of things you can see only on old film reels.
Amazon greenlit a full first season several months ago, after the pilot was the most-watched on Amazon Prime. Ridley Scott is producing the series, with Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) executive-producing. Check out the trailer, with cool visuals of alternate-history U.S. monuments, as well as glimpses of stars Rufus Sewell and Alexa Davalos. Plus, there are some hints about the eponymous Man in the High Castle, who the cast discussed at SDCC.
The Man in the High Castle is set to premiere in fall 2015; in the meantime, check out The Folio Society’s new edition, with gorgeous illustrations by Shan Jiang.
i find myself dreading how they’ll explain away the presence of people of color. all sent to concentration camps i suppose.
@2 Comment unpublished: please tone down your rhetoric, and rephrase in a way that does not include attacks on other commenters. Thank you.
@1. In the book, at least, there’s a massive genocide of the entire African continent underway. African-Americans are mostly forced to flee into the slim neutral zone between Japan’s US territory and Germany’s.
@1 I’ve only seen the pilot, but yes, I can confirm there are blacks in the ‘neutral zone’ area. And if you’re talking people of color more broadly, of course the entire show is partly about Japan having taken control of the western US, so Asian characters are pretty prominent.
It’s been a while since I read the book, but what’s with all the Nazi symbolism and Nazis? Didn’t the original novel take place entirely in the Japanese controlled western US and people didn’t know what was going on in the the Nazi controlled east?