Hey folks, Harry here... Seems that Brandon Easton is looking to break out from the world of Comics into the world of film, and frankly a film based on Phillip K Dick's THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE would just fucking kickass! I'm ALL FOR IT! I love alternative history storytelling and what if books... I'll blame Stan Lee and Marvel for that... I just get a hankering for this sort of material and this was Dick's first real novel to show the world what he could do... What I love is that the story isn't necessarily about the setting, it just takes place in it, so as a result it isn't about a cadre of Americans trying to take back the country... that ain't gonna happen, something else is up entirely and... well, go read the book or wait for a movie. If anyone out there knows the latest on this, drop us a line!
Hello Harry,
Long time reader, first time emailer!
I don't know if this would be of any interest to you. But recently, one of our people got their hands on a script and a concept from a comic book writer guy named Brandon M. Easton. He does a comic book called ARKANIUM from Dream-something press.
By the way, I work in NYC at an "undisclosed" agency that has a home base office in L.A.
Apparently, he adapted a screenplay from a novel called THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE written by Phillip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Total Recall, Screamers) and people think its awesome. I don't know if he had the rights to the novel but, luckily, one our guys here is fairly literature of sci-fi and he has been saying that its a cross between BRAZIL and an alternate future Harry Turtledove novel where the Axis powers win WWII.
Also, I managed to get my hands on his pitches. Check this out...
EMBRACE: Genre (psychological thriller/crime/sci-fi/horror) -- A detective stumbles onto a massive supernatural conspiracy that begins with a psychiatrist who manipulates her patients into criminal activity with an outlawed drug. LOG LINE: Cross between 100 BULLETS/X-FILES.
Pretty cool eh? I don't know where this is going, but I tell you that EMBRACE would make one hell of an HBO series...
Well, until next time, FRANKIE THE GREY signing out...
Take care Harry...
